Advances in medical science may well lead to more-than-human abilities
By Siri Steiner, with additional reporting by Nicole Dyer, Jenny Everett and Martha Harbison
Posted 08.01.2005 at 3:00 pm
The pattern is familiar: Researchers develop a technology or drug to aid the ailing. Soon thereafter, healthy people co-opt it to make themselves stronger, faster or smarter. Follow this trend far enough, and we reach the augmented human. Popular Science has scoured the most promising research under way in bioengineering laboratories worldwide to take an informed look at how technology will enter and alter our bodies over the coming decades.
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