Hugh Herr on the Future of Bionics
From: Popular Science - 11/2015 - page 32

Titanium and silicone may someday surpass flesh and blood

"In our culture, we tend to view the artificial, when it's attached to a
human, as unholy. We think that our bodies are better than the devices we
conceive and construct. I think that belief will disappear. Just because
something is made of titanium and silicone does not mean that it’s somehow
less than human."

I'm intrigued by the possibility of embedding humanity - our ideas and our
creativity - into designable bodies. The artificial limbs we create can be
just as beautiful and expressive as our own bodies made of innate cells."

"Hopefully I’ll experience motor inventions that are superior to biological
muscle tissue. To me, it's not scary; it's the natural progression of our
evolution."

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http://www.popsci.com/bionics-natural-progression-our-evolution