Just as interesting as thinking about how society will adapt to climate change or to new modes of communication, is how society will react to and evolve with our future abilities to enhance human capabilities.

Three forward-thinking authors: Dr. James Hughes (Citizen Cyborg: Why Democratic Societies Must Respond to the Redesigned Human of the Future ), Ramez Naam (More Than Human: Embracing the Promise of Biologiccal Enhancement,), and journalist Joel Garreau (Radical Evolution: The Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds, Our Bodies -- And What It Means To Be Human), sat down with Jamais Cascio in early 2005 for a collective interview to discuss ideas about what human augmentation of the future might entail:

The question of how society changes when we can enhance aspects of human capabilities is something we touch on regularly at WorldChanging. It's at least as important a question as how society adapts to climate change or embraces new tools for networking and communication; some of us would argue it may be even more important. As a topic of discussion, it has often been relegated to fringe culture and science fictional musing, but a series of books over the last year have brought the idea ever closer to the mainstream -- and the most recent may be set to make the question of how humankind evolves a front page issue.

Read the full interview here:
Human Changing Part I
Human Changing Part II

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