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We are the children of our times, and I look to the future with passion and expectation, despite the risks of an cyberpunk future described so many times and so well in literature, movies and videogames.
Everything is evolving so fast and Everything seems more natural. The Human enhancement technologies (HET) are techniques that can be used not simply for treating illness and disability, but also for enhancing human characteristics and capacities.
Because, the true thing that make us humans, is the capacity of success and overcoming even when everything seems impossible and the ability to create and innovate to make it happen.
When I was reading about Oscar, I couldn't think that even with his disability, Oscar has exceeded all expectations. For the first time in the human history, technology is evolving to a level of perfeccion that makes me belive that very soon will improve the skills and abilities of the human race.
Oscar Leonard Carl Pistorius (known as the "Blade Runner") is a South African sprint runner. In 2008, Time magazine chose him as the one hundred most influential people in the world, in the "Heroes and Pioneers". Oscar Pistorius also is the new model of Thierry Mugler advertising campaign. In July 2011, he made history in Italy with a personal best of 45.07 seconds for the men's 400m, a result that saw him qualify for the South African national team and the IAAF World Championships in Daegu, South Korea (Aug 2011). Here he made history yet again, running against non-disabled athletes and qualifying for the 400m semi-finals.
Is Oscar a superhuman? Or he is just one of the first example of an enhance human? This can be taken as a radical idea, but today millions of men and women go through surgery to improve certain aspects of their anatomy "just on a whim" this way I think that is very realistic to think that all we will pass through surgery to improve ourselves with chips and implants sooner that we think.
