I think they are a better race than humans ever were.

The Hedonistic Imperative outlines how genetic engineering and nanotechnology will abolish suffering in all sentient life. This project is ambitious but technically feasible. It is also instrumentally rational and ethically mandatory. The metabolic pathways of...

I predict we will abolish suffering throughout the living world. Our descendants will be animated by gradients of genetically pre-programmed well-being that are orders of magnitude richer than today’s peak experiences.

Dr. Blockhead’s mocking face was solemn for once. ‘Modern science is wiping out deviant strains of the human form,’ he said. ‘In the twenty-first century, genetic engineering will do more than merely eliminate Siamese twins...

The only thing we can try to do is to influence the direction scientists are taking. Since we might soon be able to engineer our desires too, perhaps the real questions facing us is not...