Engineered Enhancers Closer Than You Think

Roland Piquepaille writes "Happy 2035! Thirty years from now, we'll use bionic eyes giving us 'zoom vision' for faster reactions. Nanobots injected in our bloodstream will complement our immune system. Artificial muscles built with electroactive polymers will help us to be stronger and faster. So you think it's science fiction? Not at all. You'll see that some people are so convinced that this kind of human enhancements will happen that they predict than in a few decades, all sporting events 'will be split up to accommodate enhanced and unenhanced athletes.'"

Comments

This is great and all but -

[skazatmebaby]

I'm looking for the technology NOW - not in 30 years that will allow us to live in a mode of sustainability, not of wizbang thingies that make us "enhanced".

Isn't it ironic that we have all this technology that allows us to do more, quicker - and have more free time to loaf about, but we're destroying the world, exploiting resources and people and a whole slew of other things in the process? Seems we can loaf about just as much by living simpler. I don't need implanted anything. I need a tree. Maybe a book. More likely, a loved one.

Not to sound cynical, but there seems to be a lot of smart people in the world - why are they all playing Halo 2?

Cheers,

Re:It's not a bug, it's a feature

[Scrameustache]

I can remember in the news a while back there was a russian girl who was able to see in either normal vision, or a kind of x-ray

Yes yes, and there's this chinese guy that can read from his armpit, and this guy Raël who's Jesus's half brother and... how gullible are you, exactly?