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Monday, June 16, 2014

The Transhuman Future: Be More Than You Can Be

The Transhuman Future: Be More Than You Can Be : 13.7: Cosmos And Culture : NPR: "The future? Transhumanism will only grow. Technological devices will be implanted in our heads and bodies, our used peripherally, like Google Glass, extending our senses and cognitive abilities.

Collage illustration of a human head, computer chip, digits and various abstract elements.

Why see only in the visible portion of the electromagnetic spectrum? Let's go ultraviolet! Infrared! Let's extend our hearing range, our memory capacity, our immune defenses, our life span, our brainpower.

The question that no one has answered, though, is what will this do to our species? Will we simply reinvent ourselves, taking evolution into our own hands? It seems that we are already doing this. And will we then become less human?"

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