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Dr. Stock
was a participant in
Closer to Truth:
Show 108,
“Can You Really Extend Your
Life?”
Show 114, "Does
Sex Have a Future?"
Show 201, "Can
We Imagine the Far Future - Year 3000?"
Show 205, "Will
Gene Therapy Change the Human Race?"
Show 210, "How
Does Technology Transform Society?"
Dr. Gregory Stock Dr.
Gregory Stock is Director of the Medicine, Technology
and Society Program at the University of California at Los
Angeles (UCLA) where he focuses on transformational
technologies such as genetic engineering. He is also a
visiting professor in the Department of Neuropsychiatry and
Biobehavior School of Medicine. Trained in both biophysics
and business, he is the author of Metaman: The Merging of
Humans and Machines into a Global Superorganism, which
examines our likely evolutionary future, and edited the
recent volume, Engineering the Human Germline: An
Exploration of the Science and Ethics of Altering the Genes
We Pass to Our Children.
Following the publication of Metaman, he spent a year at Princeton’s
Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs
looking specifically at the implications of recent
breakthroughs in molecular genetics.
Stock received a Ph.D in biophysics from Johns Hopkins
University and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. He
has published research papers on topics ranging from tissue
regeneration to laser light scattering, and has designed
computer software for electronic banking networks. Recently,
he has been exploring public policy issues associated with
human germline engineering and other advanced reproductive
technologies. He has appeared on hundreds of radio and
television shows from Larry King to Good Morning Australia
to discuss various aspects of technology and human values,
and is the author of four books besides Metaman.
His series of books exploring human values, which included The Book of Questions,
a
NY Times bestseller, have now sold over 3 million copies
and have been translated into 15 languages.
To read more about Dr. Stock, please visit his Homepage:
http://research.mednet.ucla.edu/pmts/Stock.htm
Program website:
http://research.mednet.ucla.edu/pmts
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