In this month's seminar, Triple Ring Technologies is pleased to feature guest speaker David Ewing Duncan talk about his latest book:

In David's latest book Experimental Man: What One Man's Body Reveals About His Future, Your Health, and Our Toxic World  (John Wiley, due out March 16, 2009), he chronicles his own extensive personal testing in the realms of genes, environment, brain and body. David was poked, prodded, examined and analyzed in his quest to discover the extremes of knowing oneself.

Using his own body as a way to make scientific data more accessible, David reviews the current status of high technology medicine and testing for healthy individuals. He covers what is useful, and what is not, and what is coming in the future. He also questions whether or not access to this data is helpful.

As he assesses this bold new world of self-discovery, he takes a closer look at the emotional and philosophical impact of knowing so much about oneself. Speculating on the implications of predictive testing on politics, business, law, consumers, society and the individual, he asks: do we really want to know this much about ourselves?