In this blog, created as a final project for a SCS100 class, I will observe the development of biotechnologies that aim to help people by scientifically enhancing or altogether replacing human body parts with artificial alternatives.
"Bionic refers to application of biological ways and systems seen in nature to design and study the engineering systems. Bionic human would refer to human whose worn out parts can be repaired and refitted into the body. We cannot say that whole of a human body is replaceable but most of the parts can find replacements."
"Bionic refers to application of biological ways and systems seen in nature to design and study the engineering systems. Bionic human would refer to human whose worn out parts can be repaired and refitted into the body. We cannot say that whole of a human body is replaceable but most of the parts can find replacements."
But is biognosis a right and ethical path for science to take? Many people oppose and are even repulsed by the idea of technologically altering the human body. I, however, do not see bionics as a fresh branch of science, it is, indeed, direct continuation of our scientific development. There is already plenty of devices that can be considered commonplace that may fall under the definition of bionic. Glasses, contact lenses, cochlear implants, dentures, dental implants and bridges, artificial hips, hearts and other organs are all nan-made devices that aid or replace a body part through use of science.
The 90's was a scientifically groundbreaking time with the advent of the internet and other advanced information technology. This coming decade is also promising to bring further innovations to how we live our lives and new technologies such as the ones below may soon become just as commonplace as computers and the internet have become today.
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