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June 26, 2005
Beyond Human: Humanity's Future?
By William Weir
The Hartford Courant
HARTFORD, Conn. - Sitting in his office at Trinity College, James Hughes explains his vision of a family gathering a couple of hundred years from now: One family member is a cyborg, another is outfitted with gills for living underwater. Yet another has been modified to live in a vacuum.
``But they will all consider themselves as descendants of humanity,'' he says.
( Read more... )As a reader of science fiction, what this man talks about seems inevitable. What about you? Are you for or against? In either situation, what is your imagined scenario of what will happen if it does occur?
Beyond Human: Humanity's Future?
By William Weir
The Hartford Courant
HARTFORD, Conn. - Sitting in his office at Trinity College, James Hughes explains his vision of a family gathering a couple of hundred years from now: One family member is a cyborg, another is outfitted with gills for living underwater. Yet another has been modified to live in a vacuum.
``But they will all consider themselves as descendants of humanity,'' he says.
( Read more... )As a reader of science fiction, what this man talks about seems inevitable. What about you? Are you for or against? In either situation, what is your imagined scenario of what will happen if it does occur?