Do you know the importance of human augmentation? Can you imagine the person from the cinematic world that overcame all odds and used his knowledge and experience with technologies to overcome his disabilities and emerge as an outstanding individual?

Yes, that individual is none other than Tony Stark, from the Iron Man of the Avengers superhero saga.  Aside from the fact that this particular character was a wonderful illustration of IoT’s cinematic profession, another place where Tony Stark surpassed was human augmentation.

With the support of comprehensive human augmentation technology, Tony Stark showed that there’s a cure for an opportunity that allows people to update themselves and put their disabilities to rest genuinely. So yes, yours truly Tony Stark’s switch to Iron Man is a relatively cool example of human enhancement.…

Human enhancement technologies are opening up many exciting new possibilities. But they are also bringing up questions about what it means to be human, and what’s right or wrong for our individual and collective well-being. These new technological applications are geared towards restoring or improving mental and physical abilities for medical purposes.

However, those new applications can be turned around and used with a different goal in mind: enhancing performance. Think of athletes! However, using this technology is will be an individual choice; it nevertheless has an impact on society as a whole. An international group of researchers led by the University of Geneva (UNIGE), Switzerland, and Oxford University has been exploring the ethical issues arising from such experiments.…