Oscar Pistorius ‘The Blade Runner’ Qualifies For the Olympics | Singularity Hub
Very cool! Good for him. I'm glad to see technology helping people to do normal (and extraordinary) things even with loss of limbs.
Very cool! Good for him. I'm glad to see technology helping people to do normal (and extraordinary) things even with loss of limbs.
I hope she gets her new eye! Click the via link below to read about her incredible goal. Maybe it won't be long until artificial eyes become commonplace, allowing the blind to see...maybe even better than real eyes? It would be great if she could move the artificial eye around and have the pupil dilate like a real pupil would with changes in the amount of light. I imagine zooming in and out would also be possible, and seeing outside the visible light spectrum like infrared or ultraviolet.
The question is: if it's possible, should we do it? I imagine soldiers on a battle field or disabled people will be the first to adopt such bio-enhancing technologies. What it is to be human may soon have a more broad definition.
Transhumanism, often abbreviated as H+ or h+, is an international intellectual and cultural movement that affirms the possibility and desirability of fundamentally transforming the human condition by developing and making widely available technologies to eliminate aging and to greatly enhance human intellectual, physical, and psychological capacities. -wikipedia.org