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We should be happy. We should be enjoying that there is all this bounty. Somebody can take an iPod and have all the world's music at their beck and call in an instant. What an amazing thing!

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Stock, Gregory. "To Upgrade is Human." TED, Feb. 2003, www.ted.com/talks/gregory_stock_to_upgrade_is_human.

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About the Author

Gregory Stock

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Nationality: American
Profession: Scientist

Biography

Gregory Stock is a biophysicist, best-selling author, biotech entrepreneur, and the former director of the Program on Medicine, Technology and Society at UCLA’s School of Medicine. His interests lie in the scientific and evolutionary as well as ethical, social and political implications of today's revolutions in the life sciences and in information technology and computers.

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