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"Enriquez turns what can be perceived as a dull subject into a witty and insightful piece of storytelling, challenging our perception of what we think is right and wrong."
?Engineering and Technology

“This book will make you uncomfortable and it will make you think. Enriquez challenges all of us to consider how our actions, decisions, and policies will be judged by future generations. And that judgment is not likely to be pretty unless we work through hard problems and make some big changes in a hurry.”
?John Palfrey, President of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation

“Don't get caught on the wrong side of changing ethics and exponential technologies. Juan Enriquez potently leverages the past to predict the future or, better yet, to change it. From COVID-19 to CO2 this book is timely, yet timeless. Could this beautiful little book depolarize our politics? Could it turn rationalization into rational rationales? Convert static, dismissive myopia into comprehensive exohexahedralism? Let's do more than hope so; let's make it so.”
?George Church, Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School; founding member of the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering

“With wit, insight, and masterful storytelling, Juan Enriquez challenges our certainty about what's right and wrong in an age of rapid biological innovation and technologies that give us the power to literally transform our species. This book shows us how inextricably linked our ethics are to our technologies and reminds us with empathy and humility that even ethics evolve.”
?Jane Metcalfe, Cofounder of Wired and Founder of NEO.LIFE

“Juan Enriquez bravely asks ethical questions in the light of new technologies, thoughtfully examining topics that range from mass incarceration to artificial intelligence. Whether you agree with him or not, you will want to read what he has to say.”
?Danny Hillis, pioneer of parallel computing and artificial intelligence; Founder, Thinking Machines Corporation, and Cofounder, Applied Minds, and Applied Invention

“Here's a revolutionary idea: technology is changing daily, and therefore so are our ethics. But isn't ethics a bit academic, even boring? Not if an exploration of its mashup with technology makes you question whether you understand the difference between right and wrong. Along the way on this extraordinary journey of discovery about everything from the former oceans on Venus to our present day culture wars, Enriquez will introduce you to at least a thousand new facts?and ideas?that will leave your head spinning. This is a joyride for the mind, and like a good roller coaster, it's delightfully scary.”
?Stephen Petranek, former editor of Discover, the Washington Post Magazine, This Old House Magazine, and Time

“One of our nation's deepest thinkers about the long-term implications of technology on our society here provides a riveting case-book and compelling argument about how and why the passage of time changes all ethical considerations. How does it happen?Inexorable technological advances create new opportunities to make different, and better, ethical decisions, Enriquez argues. But this comes with a price: we face the overwhelming temptation to castigate our forebears for their unethical acts. This should humble us because this means our descendants will also be judging us, when their technology improves. Vivid, stimulating, and provocative.”
?Nicholas A. Christakis, Blueprint: The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society

Chapter Page
Introduction: Why Is Ethics Suddenly White-Hot, Front-Burner? 1
1. Redesigning Humans 13
The Ethics of New Sex 13
Radically Redesigning Humans 30
Renovating Our Brains? 42
Pathologically Sick … and Imprisoned 48
2. Exponential Technologies: Today's Ethical Quicksand 57
So … You Warmed Up the Planet Just a Touch? 57
Renewing Capitalism's License? 65
You Used Do What to Animals?! 79
Deliberate Extinctions: Gene Drives 84
Technology, Truthiness, and the Demise of Institutions 89
3. Caught on the Wrong Side of History 99
Just Who Is Supposed to Teach Us Right and Wrong? 100
More Recent Ethical Quicksand: Lgbtqia 118
Endangered and Extinct Religions 125
4. The Immortality of Today's Mistakes 139
Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Google Are Electronic Tattoos 139
And Then There Are Dating Sites … 151
5. Why Don't We Fix It? 159
Baumol's Cost Disease 160
Mass Incarceration 174
Everything's Disposable … 180
6. Dead Wrong: We Still Do It; We Will Be Judged 185
Papers, Borders, and Ethics 185
War Profiteering 194
Can Being Precautionary Kill? 199
7. Conclusion? 209
Ethics 2.0, 3.0, 4.0 … 209
Postscript: Game Changers 223
Universal Ethics? China … 223
Artificial Intelligence 227
Pandemics Have a Way of Focusing Your Ethics, Don't They? 234
Seti: First Contact 242
Acknowledgments 247
Notes 249
Index 279

From the TED stage to the page, Juan Enriquez, author of As the Future Catches You and Evolving Ourselves, presents a lively and engaging guide to ethics in a technological age.

Most people have a strong sense of right and wrong, and many of us are not reluctant to argue with someone who disagrees. But when we take an unyielding stand on something we regard as an eternal truth, we forget that ethics evolve over time. What was once broadly acceptable is now completely unacceptable. For example, burning heretics is no longer considered a just punishment. Child marriage is not applauded as a family value. Many shifts in the right vs. wrong pendulum are affected by advances in technology. In Right/Wrong, Juan Enriquez reflects on the evolution of ethics in a technological age.