Human Augmentation

Tag: Human Augmentation

Protesi smart per aumentare l’essere umano

Le protesi sono un argomento molto delicato, spesso appartengono alla sfera intima di persone che hanno subito traumi gravissimi che hanno fatto perdere loro degli arti introducendo quindi disabilità e difficoltà importanti nel poter avere una vita “normale”.

Chi ha una protesi con buona probabilità preferirebbe avere l’uso del suo arto naturale, ma d’altra parte queste appendici, da quelle più semplici a quelle più evolute, costituiscono una modalità per limitare, o addirittura superare, la disabilità di centinaia di migliaia di persone in tutto il mondo.

Four steps to the human augmentation

Throughout its history, humanity has always tried to improve its physical conditions, its performance, its abilities and at the same time it has always sought solutions to mitigate its weaknesses or disabilities.

In a way it has always tried to “increase” itself from the point of view of physical strength, sharpness of the senses and also of knowledge.

In this long journey it has always used the technologies that its historical period was able to make available to it: for example, it learned to build machines capable of performing some tiring or dangerous tasks instead of it and began to equip itself with devices that help overcome some of its disabilities. The eyeglasses that many of us wear are an excellent example of a device created to overcome or mitigate a disability and which in the space of a few decades has become commonplace, transforming itself into an aesthetic and fashion accessory.