Wall Street Journal Considers Our Superabled Transhumanist Future

nextbigfuture.com — You need to hear this - Star Trek tales of Borg assimilating life-forms into the hive are morphing from Hollywood art to fact.

Remember when electric shock treatment fried people's brains in the hope that they would fix the bad bits? Then it was all a bit fry and hope - taking the good bits out with the bad! Well now science can target and enhance the bad bits alone or good bits to make them better.

Now who gets to decide which bits are bad and why? Who gets to decide whos brain will get assimilated into the enhanced hive?

And who controls the hive?

And....??????????

.... Political activism bypass anyone? Will it remain your choice?

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