Over at the MIT Tech Review website, neuroscientist Ed Boyden argues for brain augmentation:
It's arguably time for a discipline to emerge around the idea of human augmentation. At the MIT Media Lab, we are beginning to search for principles that govern the use of technology to augment human abilities--that make the idea of normal obsolete...
One argument in favor of going for optimality, and forgetting about normal, is that it's becoming harder and harder to...