Will We All Have To Become Biologically Enhanced Superhumans?

Okay, hands up who can tell who’s the most famous biologically enhanced superhuman in the world? True, it’s a quite close call between Captain America and The Incredible Hulk (sorry Spidey, you’re not even close). But are human-invented superhumans just a thing of a Stan Lee comic, or is it an actual scientific idea from a real laboratory? As a matter of fact, enhancing human capabilities has been on the minds of people for ages, but it has come a long way from ancient training methods to exoskeletons. Enhancing our abilities, be it permanently or temporarily is a tempting but risky matter. Will it be possible in the not-too-far future to gear up superhuman powers so we don’t lag behind the others? Let’s dive in and see how (and if) we can be our better selves. Superhuman – with the help of technology A brief history of human enhancement First, we need to ask what ‘enhancement’ exactly is. Throughout history, the enhancement of humans by various tools from physical addendums (remember Icaros?) to drugs (from ferocious Viking “berserkers” to the Nazi army or East German swimmers – or many of the cyclists still today), or even love (just google ‘Sacred Band of Thebes’) have been on the minds of leaders, military chiefs or inventors alike. Or philosophers, as a matter of fact. The urge to live forever has not passed with our predecessors, let’s take a look at Bryan Johnson’s Blueprint project with its straightforward...
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