National Geographic's feature article provides a nice overview of the present state of adaptive technologies. The graphic presentation is really cool. The eye surgery video is simply shocking, and shows, to my mind, that retinal implants are the fastest area of progress in the last five years.The article's overall claim that humans are "better off" with this technology, is a bit tame, to say the least, particularly in contrast with William Cornwell's view that we can only be human with this technology. For more on this see Cornwell's paper, "Human Nature Unbound" and come out for his talk at the Cipher workshop, January 19th.
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