It is true that technology cannot match biology yet for whole bodies,
but give time to time - someday bionics may do better than "naturally"
evolved biology. I think restoration is considered feasible already and
enhancement is not, so "ordinary people" do not think of enhancement
yet. However, this article is interesting:<br>
<a href="http://future.iftf.org/2005/09/michael_chorost.html">IFTF Future Now blog</a>: <span style="font-style: italic;">On August 31st, </span><a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://www.michaelchorost.com/">Michael Chorost
</a><span style="font-style: italic;">, author of </span><a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=relevanthisto-20%26link_code=xm2%26camp=2025%26creative=165953%26path=http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html%253fASIN=0618378294%2526tag=relevanthisto-20%2526lcode=xm2%2526cID=2025%2526ccmID=165953%2526location=/o/ASIN/0618378294%25253FSubscriptionId=02ZH6J1W0649DTNS6002" id="2025%2526ccmID=165953%2526location=/o/ASIN/0618378294%25253FSubscriptionId=02ZH6J1W0649DTNS6002">
Rebuilt : How Becoming Part Computer Made Me More Human</a><span style="font-style: italic;">, spoke at the Institute... [He] talked a bit about the transhumanist literature. He describes
himself as trying to stake out a middle ground between enthusiasts like
Kevin Warwick and critics like Francis Fukuyama; he sees his work
emphasizing the complexity of the human body, and the necessity of soft
approaches such as training and social infrastructure to gain maximum
benefit from whatever technology is developed. (I thought he was the
first transhumanist author to really emphasize the "human" over the
"trans.")</span><br style="font-style: italic;">
<span style="font-style: italic;">He's also more skeptical of claims that new technologies will
transform humans. Almost all current technologies are used to restore
senses or sensory capabilities, rather than extend or enhance.
Restoration is the goal of most ordinary people, and is difficult
enough: "I am skeptical of potential for enhancement via bionics," on
the grounds that our natural sensory organs are fantastically
sophisticated, and reproducing them-- or completely new things-- will
be very hard to create. Further, in the pre-nanotech state of the art,
"bionics is big and clunky: it works on the scale of millimeters. The
body works at the level of nanometers. We're not even close" to
matching the body's capabilities and scale.
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