Are We Building Superman?
As the greatest of all the superheroes, Superman possesses extraordinary powers represented as \”faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive, and able to leap tall buildings in a single bound,\” a description made famous in the Superman TV series of the 1950s. Superman\’s capabilities include flight, super-strength, invulnerable skin, super-speed, x-ray vision, super-hearing, and the ability to blow with the power of gale-force winds. Besides that, he was pretty much invulnerable to disease and smart as a whip. This is one tough dude.
These certainly are abilities \”far beyond those of mortal men\” as the old TV series proclaimed, but is technology pushing us in this direction? Is our destiny to create a new, greatly enhanced version of humanity? In other words, a new species of superhumans?
I believe that\’s exactly where we are heading. As we continue to advance the big four technologies