Information and Biological Revolutions

Global Governance Challenges — Summary of a Study Group

by Francis Fukuyama, Caroline S. Wagner

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This report summarizes the issues that arose and the discussions held during the meetings of a 1998-1999 study group focusing on global governance of information technology and biotechnology. The goal was to bring a policy perspective to bear on a discussion of new technological developments through a series of free-flowing and exploratory presentations and discussions.

Table of Contents

Chapter One

Introduction: Governance Challenges of the Dual Revolutions in Information and Biotechnology

Chapter Two

The Promise and Challenge of Emerging Technologies

Chapter Three

The Problem of Governance

Chapter Four

Possible Government Actions: Conclusions and Recommendations

Appendix A

Evolution on the Timescale of Thought and Action: Darwinian Approaches to Language, Planning and Consciousness, and Some Lessons from Paleoclimate About How to Speed up Evolution

Appendix B

Quantum Theory and Human Consciousness

Appendix C

Morals, Demonic Males and Evolutionary Psychology

Appendix D

Implications for Public Policy of the Information and Communications Revolution

Appendix E

Biology, History, and Social Organization

Appendix F

Triumph or Tragedy: the Moral Meaning of Genetic Technology

Appendix G

The Conversion of Genetics and Computing: Implications for Medicine, Society, and Individual Identity

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