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By Don Del Rosso
Rappahannock News Staff Writer • Will technology and medicine lead to a perfect world, eliminating disease, physical disabilities and perhaps evpn death?
Or will it produce a kind, of hell on Earth, destroying the planet, or at least making it virtually uninhabitable?
Neither, postulates Broad Rim resident and author Joel Garreau.
He prefers to believe that informed, “cussed,” ingenious and rational men and women on the street will decide how genets ics, robotics, information and nanotechnology should be used to develop “solutions” to the big “challenges” that face society on a global scale.
For an hour last Wednesday night, Garreau gave the Hume Ruritan Club the Cliffs Notes version of “Radical Evolution: The Promise and Perils of Enhancing Our Minds, Our Bodies and What it Means to be Human,” his new book on the subject.
“I don’t do predictions,” the Washington Post editor and writer warned the 40 or so gathered June 21 at the Leeds Episcopal Church Parish House for the club’s monthly dinner meeting. “I don’t have a crystal ball.”
Instead, as a reporter, “I’m here to talk about what’s in the pipeline and what’s coming at us.”
The pipeline could include “memory pills” for people in the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease and devices that could
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