Overview
1. Describe what you find to be the four most interesting “human enhancements” portrayed in the film Fixed: The Science/Fiction of Human Enhancement. (~100 words)
2. Think back to Week 2 of our class and consider their effect on identity.(~200 words)
- How do each of the four technological enhancements, augmentations, and/or solutions you described change us?
- Are they merely helpful add-ons that can be used to improve one’s life, or do they have a more profound and transformative effect on self and identity?
- You might find inspiration in Petersen’s article “Replicating Our Bodies, Losing Our Selves: News Media Portrayals of Human Cloning in the Wake of Dolly.”
3. Finally, how has technology changed the way you experience both your body and its relationship to your identity? (~100 words, or more if you like)
4. What is an interesting question, either on this topic, or linking this topic with another in our class, to guide discussion in this week's forum?
Your initial post should be about 400 words long.