Rising above yourself

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External “limitations”
However, it is not limited to sports. If we are visually impaired, we wear glasses as an aid. In the not too distant future, we will implant a much more advanced version of these glasses directly on or in front of our eyes. This will become as common as lasering our eyes is now, but with the result that we will see much better than healthy people. Up to 100 times (!) better than with a normal eye.


There are also tools to eliminate our external limitations. Botox and teeth whitening have become 'normal' interventions. It is even accepted when people who do not experience any real limitations undergo such an 'intervention'. The question is how we are going to apply these technological changes to enrich our capacities. So you are healthy, but you want to take an extra step. Is that allowed in ethical and legal terms?

In a globalizing world, it is an even more difficult issue, because, as Yuri says: “Countries like China have a very different ethical and legal stance than here in the West.”

Fear of robots
Science fiction is always a great way to give future developments a place. Robots often play a prominent role in this. A fear of many is that robots will take over us, that they will develop feelings and will eventually be able to learn things themselves. On the other hand, many people say that technology cannot do that. Technology makes tunisia phone data considerations that are mathematical in nature, while people make considerations that take other – non-mathematical – aspects into account.


What I have come to see through the interview with Yuri is that it is not the robots that are going to take us over. I am not afraid of that. No, we will implant technical innovations in ourselves that will eventually make us partly a robot. That starts with the elite who can afford these developments. A new type of methadone for the CEO. Not a pill, but an implant that will make their brain capacity exceed their own, so that they see and hear things better than their employees or fellow CEOs. Healthcare wants it, sports uses it, are we next?

In a next article I will discuss how close this future scenario actually is, thanks to technologies such as Layar and Google Glasses.