via Wired

…Such desire for radical body transformation remains very much on the fringe, and represents behavior that many if not most people would consider taboo. But the distance between denial and acceptance could turn as much on what current machines can and can’t do, as it does body image.

In science fiction, advanced bionics that not only replace but surpass human potential are often treated as a given. Although today’s technologies come nowhere close to that ideal, it’s increasingly tantalizing to ponder what-if scenarios.