Frankenstein’s warning: the too-familiar hubris of today’s technoscience

Technology presuming to recreate humanity is central to Mary Shelley’s masterpiece. It is more relevant today than everGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailCan we imagine a scenario in which the different anxieties aroused by George Romero’s horror film Night of the Living Dead and Stanley Kubrick’s sci-fi dystopia 2001: A Space Odyssey merge?How might a monster that combined our fear of becoming something less than human with our fear of increasingly “intelligent&r