Techno enhancement
Project: The great enhancement debate

First the news: Oscar Pistorius has been given the OK, he's back on track for the Beijing Olympics



"On a more immediate playing field, an international court ruled on Friday that South African Oscar Pistorius can once again return to the track. A sprinter, hoping to even make the Beijing Olympics, Pistorius has had to fight through more than your average athlete though. Miles and miles of red tape, bad scientific reporting, and, oh yeah, he’s an amputee." Daily Galaxy


Jamais Cascio in his blog at Open the future has a fascinating take on the whole enhancement debate entitled: Remaking the Athlete, Remaking the Culture.


from the article :" Discussions of the implications of the augmentation of our biological bodies with prosthetic technologies can be found quite readily in the esoteric discourses of self-described transhumanists, social theorists, and bioethicists. One might be forgiven for imagining that it's less-common among sports fans, more concerned with the latest scores and statistics. But the cover story of the current ESPN Magazine, "Let 'Em Play," not only explores the bigger issues surrounding the integration of augmentation in our culture, but (as the article title suggests) adopts a clearly pro-prosthetic perspective. Given the sports panics around doping, this isn't just enlightened, it's brave."

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