In recent years there has been some controversy about amputees competing against able-bodied athletes. This is the result of significant advancements in prosthetics. Amputees are mutating from “brave individuals” to “dirty cheats”. That someone with titanium legs might actually be considered unfair competition. So how long before the Paralympics become the main event with a completely new and defining set of rules? Right now you’re going to laugh at me for considering a human running 100m in 4 seconds… but when they do it you will be hooked.

Fast forward to current events about the Smarthand European Research Project in Sweden. A robotic hand wired to the users brain, returning the sensation of touch. Yes, amazing and undoubtedly the birth of a new race, a new human race bringing us closer to our science fantasies.

But as I started, the excitement for such liberation is a bumpy road and the war against cyborgs will come. No, really, a difference between humans and super humans. The fight for employment on a different front and the fight for religious values.

To know this is the future we simply look to the past. In the 1950s science fiction sold us a happy future, lots of free time because robots were going to do everything for us. Many of us would never have to work again. But today, the unemployed are the cancer in society, an unwanted tax.

My question to you is, as we redefine ourselves, can we retain compassion and humanity or must we go to war?