[extropy-chat] NYT essay on the posthuman condition

[Damien Broderick]

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/06/health/06BODY.html?th=&pagewanted=print&position=


The Altered Human Is Already Here

By JAMES GORMAN

In the popular imagination, the technologically altered human being is a 
cross between RoboCop and the Borg.

The hardware that would make such a mating of humans, silicon chips and 
assorted weaponry a reality is, unfortunately, still on back order.

Many people, however, have already made a different kind of leap into the 
posthuman future.

Their jump is biochemical, mediated by proton-pump inhibitors, serotonin 
boosters and other drugs that have become permanent additives to many human 
bloodstreams. [etc]