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 is a human-invented superhuman 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 mind of people for ages, but it came a long way from ancient training methods to exoskeletons. Enhancing our abilities, be it permanently or temporarily is a tempting but risky matter. For will it be a possible reality in the not-too-far future that we need to gear up superhuman powers so that we do not lag behind the others? Let’s dive in and see how (and if) we can be our better self. Superhuman – with the help of technology A brief history of human enhancement First, we need to ask what ‘enhancement’ exactly is. For throughout history, 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. However, biological enhancement is a much deeper issue.   The dawn of digital health brought an era of technological advancem...
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