Radicals are dreaming of changing human nature through emerging technologies . . .
LSD-guru Timothy Leary was online as he lay dying, allowing fans to watch in real-time video. The technology was not quite there for his most ambitious head-trip of all - to cheat death from incurable cancer by uploading his consciousness into the internet.
Radicals are hoping that a number of technologies on the horizon will fundamentally challenge what can properly be said to be 'natural' to mankind. Right now, many such technologies are still relegated to the realm of science fiction. But some people are starting to hope that they could become vehicles for altering what it means to be human.
