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Using Technology to Enhance Humans

Roland Piquepaille writes "It's a well-known fact that technology can improve our lives. For example, we can reach anyone and anywhere with our cellphones. And people who can't walk after an accident now can have smart prosthesis to help them. But what about designing our children on a computer or having a chip inside our brain to answer our email messages? Are we ready for such a future? In 'Robo-quandary,' the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports that many researchers are working on the subject. And as a professor of neuroscience said, "We can grow neurons on silicone plates; we can make the blind see; the deaf hear; we can read minds." So will all we become cyborgs one day?"

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  1. Cellphones by Ice+Wewe · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    For example, we can reach anyone and anywhere with our cellphones.

    "Can you hear me now? No? How about now?"

    Your Honor, I rest my case.

  2. Re:The first application by yanyan · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I, for one, welcome our new technologically-enhanced cyborg pr0nstar overloards!

  3. I'm in! by Nutty_Irishman · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I'm up for it so long as none of the components include an uplink to US Robotics.