WorldChanging: Another World Is Here: Therapy, Enhancement and the Augmented Society

When people write lyrically about human augmentation and cyborgism I am often turned off because I simply cannot imagine myself or other people wanting to trust ourselves quite so fully to such things as they describe. This is the first article that takes 'my' perspective seriously and weaves some realistic sounding scenarios for developments of neuro-tech and prosthetics. I think too that it shares a useful insight as a starting point: "The city is an augmentation not just of individuals, but of society: it is a construct which allows groups of people to do things which simply not be possible as gatherer-hunter nomads. Cities allowed more people to work together, to differentiate labor and amass never before seen levels of power (and knowledge, and wealth, and religion, and social dislocation, and stratification, and centralization...). Urbanization was humankind's first Singularity. Augmentation and enhancements of our abilities, then, is in reality a fundamental part of who we are, and as old as urban society itself."
Stimulating read; try it.
WorldChanging: Another World Is Here: Therapy, Enhancement and the Augmented Society: