Truly Human Enhancement by Nicholas Agar and Humanity Enhanced by Russell Blackford – Reviews

June 20, 2014

(The Guardian) – Fantasies of human enhancement have a long history, from early myths about supernormal strength and eternal life to 20th-century comic superheroes: Superman, Batman, Spider-Man and their many emulators. While early attempts to achieve superpowers in real life – from shouldering artificial wings to injecting monkey glands – generally ended in disaster, today’s advances in genetics and neuroscience seem to bring them closer to practical possibility.