The Present and Future of Human Augmentation

The Present and Future of Human Augmentation

When you hear the words “cyborg,” or “augmented human,” you inescapably picture Arnold Schwarzenegger as The Terminator, the Borg from Star Trek: The Next Generation, or perhaps The Six Million Dollar Man, if you're a little older. In Hollywood, any futuristic pairing of man and machine had better be so superawesome, or so superscary, that you'd be willing to spend a good couple of hours (and dollars) being entertained by it.

The crazy thing is, even though these images come from a time when technology was barely able to fake the on-screen action, we are now on the cusp of the real thing. We're entering an age that will enhance who we are as humans in ways that go well beyond these cultural clichés.

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