Today's technologies to replace lost functions (cochlear implants, vision implants, advanced prosthetics) will inevitably lead to technologies that add new functions that we've never had (Human GPS? Night vision? Super strength? Thought-controlled robots?).
"The soldiers of the future might controversially boost their brains with drugs and prosthetics, augment their strength with mechanical exoskeletons, and have artificially intelligent 'digital buddies' at their beck and call, according to the U.S. Army's Future Soldier Initiative.
"The project is the latest attempt from the U.S. Army research lab in Natick, Mass., to brainstorm what soldiers might carry into the battlefield of tomorrow. A special emphasis of its concept is augmenting mental performance."
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