{"id":9833,"date":"2023-04-30T15:37:39","date_gmt":"2023-04-30T13:37:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/30\/frankensteins-warning-the-too-familiar-hubris-of-todays-technoscience\/"},"modified":"2023-04-30T15:37:39","modified_gmt":"2023-04-30T13:37:39","slug":"frankensteins-warning-the-too-familiar-hubris-of-todays-technoscience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/30\/frankensteins-warning-the-too-familiar-hubris-of-todays-technoscience\/","title":{"rendered":"Frankenstein\u2019s warning: the too-familiar hubris of today\u2019s technoscience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Technology presuming to recreate humanity is central to Mary Shelley\u2019s masterpiece. It is more relevant today than ever<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/newsletters\/2019\/oct\/18\/saved-for-later-sign-up-for-guardian-australias-culture-and-lifestyle-email?CMP=cvau_sfl\">Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Can we imagine a scenario in which the different anxieties aroused by George Romero\u2019s horror film <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2018\/oct\/24\/night-living-dead-review-george-romero-horror-1968-classic-ghouls\">Night of the Living Dead<\/a> and Stanley Kubrick\u2019s sci-fi dystopia <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2014\/nov\/27\/2001-a-space-odyssey-review-rerelease\">2001: A Space Odyssey<\/a> merge?<\/p>\n<p>How might a monster that combined our fear of becoming something less than human with our fear of increasingly \u201cintelligent\u201d machines appear to us and what might it say?<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2023\/may\/01\/frankensteins-warning-the-too-familiar-hubris-of-todays-technoscience\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/4492d4f6670bec48cbbf1247c11ad870a5156179\/0_275_4961_2976\/master\/4961.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=d9935f22180abb1676c2b3a5dd120fb4\" title=\"Frankenstein\u2019s warning: the too-familiar hubris of today\u2019s technoscience\" \/>Technology presuming to recreate humanity is central to Mary Shelley\u2019s masterpiece. It is more relevant today than ever<br \/>\nGet our weekend culture and lifestyle email<br \/>\nCan we imagine a scenario in which the different anxieties aroused by George Romero\u2019s horror film Night of the Living Dead and Stanley Kubrick\u2019s sci-fi dystopia 2001: A Space Odyssey merge?<br \/>\nHow might a monster that combined our fear of becoming something less than human with our fear of increasingly \u201cintelligent\u201d machines appear to us and what might it say? Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Technology presuming to recreate humanity is central to Mary Shelley\u2019s masterpiece. It is more relevant today than ever Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email Can we imagine a scenario in which the different anxieties aroused by George Romero\u2019s horror film Night of the Living Dead and Stanley Kubrick\u2019s sci-fi dystopia 2001: A Space Odyssey &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/30\/frankensteins-warning-the-too-familiar-hubris-of-todays-technoscience\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Frankenstein\u2019s warning: the too-familiar hubris of today\u2019s technoscience<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":9834,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9833"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}