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It's clear to see that with the obvious common ground of solutions
based around the brain and body, rehabilitation in many
cases would bleed into enhancement. There's another reason
for that branching out though, one based in dollar signs.
Reinkensmeyer says that ultimately the roof on commercialization
of rehabilitation technology is fairly close to the floor.
It's natural then that anyone exploring the tech commercially
would lean more toward the more potentially lucrative arena
of augmentation.
" [With] the commercial interest, the rehabilitation market
might be more limited, " he says. " Anyone who's getting into it
commercially has probably got to think about augmentation
type stuff. "
Even with the overlap between
augmentation and rehabilitation,
the financial incentive to augment
our lives, and the pure excitement
of becoming something more, the
obstacles against widespread human
enhancement are stacked high. One
such hurdle is our cultural comfort.
Reinkensmeyer says it's tricky to
predict the future of augmentation
developments, in part because
of societal acceptance based on
cultural norms.
" If it requires surgery, or implantation, or an amputation ...
How much are they willing to alter their body? Now there's
precedent, right, because people do plastic surgery. And
so that's a form of augmentation ... You change your body
shape, " he says. That said, it's tricky to tell how closely cosmetic
augmentation numbers would reflect something as irreversible
as, say, limb replacement.
There are also concerns over technology outpacing ethical
boundaries. Exclusive access to certain social and economic
segments would only widen existing inequities, placing more
resources and opportunities into the hands of the privileged,
at the expense of everyone else.
Rehabilitation and augmentation technology share a relationship
that can be described as that of cousins, if not an older
and younger sibling. While sharing many of the same pieces,
however, for now are too many unanswered questions around
the younger. This might fly in the face of futurist fantasy - but
perhaps it's better to help those restore the priceless thing
they've lost, over providing even more to those who've always
had it.
Image source on p.15: Tong et al., 2019, PLOS ONE, CC-BY 4.0
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