One of my favorite blogs, io9, has been running a series of posts on “posthumanity” from both fiction and real-life. Today R.U. Sirius of h+ Magazine has a great post up about his “best-case scenario for posthumanity.” In it, he describes what his ideal vision of the future might look like, which includes open-source style [...]
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3D organ printing: coming soon to a hospital near you?
For a few years I’ve been reading about technology that enables doctors to “print” human organs for transplants. Unlike the traditional sources for transplant organs (willing donors and cadavers), 3D printers would enable patients in need to receive organs without having to wait on a list, as well as produce organs created from the patients’ [...]