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Sixteenth Emil A. Gutheil Memorial Conference. Factors influencing sexual behavior in our future society.

The paper is concerned with some of the factors that will probably influence sexual behavior at the end of this century and in the beginning of the next. These include changes in family structure, marriage, male-female relationships, effects of large organizations on male-female role playing, mass increase in population, anticipated food shortages, and the effects of forced leisure.

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Frankensteins and cyborgs: visions of the global future in an age of technology.

This paper draws attention to the role of representation in the depiction of scientific and technological innovation as a means of understanding the narratives that circulate concerning the shape of things to come. It considers how metaphors play an important part in the conduct of scientific explanation, and how they do more than describe the world in helping also to shape expectations, normalise particular choices, establish priorities and create needs. In surveying the range of metaphorical responses to the digital and biotechnological age, we will see how technologies are regarded both as 'endangerment' and 'promise.' What we believe 'technology' is doing to 'us' reflects important implicit philosophies of technology and its relationship to human agency and political choice; yet we also need to be alert to the assumptions about 'human nature' itself which inform such reactions. The paper argues that embedded in the various representations implicit in the new technologies are crucial issues of identity, community and justice: what it means to be (post)human, who is (and who is not) entitled to the rewards of technological advancement, what priorities (and whose interests) will inform the shape of global humanity into the next century.

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