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If you want to see the future debate over human enhancement, look no further than today’s sports. The modern athlete is a highly-enhanced creature.

Winter is typically flu season, and talk around the water cooler in 2009 has turned to the H1N1 virus, the so-called “swine flu.”

I’m sort of inured to pain by this point. Anesthetic is illegal for people like me, so we learn to live without it; I’ve made scalpel incisions in my hands, pushed five-millimeter diameter needles through my skin, and once used a vegetable knife to carve a cavity into the tip of my index finger.

If you haven't been following along with all the advances in contact lenses, you are missing out. Efficiency is a top priority in our modern lives and doctors and patients are no exception, particularly when it comes to diagnosing and treating illness.

In 1912, Jung publishes Transformations and Symbols of the Libido. The book introduces the concept of the collective unconscious and furthers his position regarding the mytho-poetic nature of the psyche;

Animated and programmable LED tattoos connected to your brain? You could show off your latest Flash animations, watch TV on your arm, or have a built-in PDA screen.

Frederick Downs, Jr., a Vietnam veteran and director of VA's Prosthetic and Sensory Aids Service who lost his left arm, was "brought to tears" when a prosthetic arm allowed him to take a drink of bottled water with a single motion.

If anyone is going to persuade us to abandon the flesh, be downloaded, and live forever as information, it is Martine Rothblatt.

Transhumanism in a fortune cookie: the familiar human world is just one point along a continuum of evolution, and we have an unprecedented capacity to participate in that process.

Rob Spence has started to democratize cyborg living today by enabling a new demographic to recognize, appreciate and hopefully embrace their futuristic selves.