Monday, October 4, 2010

Super Powers

http://wtf.thebizzare.com/offbeat/science-and-technology/5-super-powers-you-can-have-today/

As kids we all wanted to have super powers and it was but a fantasy, but we still wished it was true. Now that we are older and have been exposed to the world of what is possible; we have lost our imagination and our hope in super powers. The new technologies that have been developed has brought back that possibility of having super powers. Look at how the disabled can run again and faster than the average man. See how a man can record his days with an eye which is a micro camera. The future is full of wonders such as these superpowers. But the question now becomes when does it stop? The way things are going its only a matter of time before people are getting elective implants for everything. It starts with a guy trying to run again and leads to people cutting off their own legs so that they can run faster and longer. Where do we draw the line ? When does it become an invasion of privacy to film every one around you all the time ? There are things that must be outlined that eventually must be dealt with. There isn't yet a limit to what we can do with our technology and pretty soon I think that people will have superpowers of some sort if they can afford it. So in the end our childhood dreams of super powers may still come true, and at the rate technology is evolving it might be sooner than we think.

2 comments:

Jez said...

Don't we already have superpowers due to the technologies? Think of this way: before telephones or cellphones were invented, which human being had the ability to talk to one another from a very long distance?

Shmikie said...

Even cars give us superpowers in a way... we're like cyborgs! This is a nice post. Well written with some great rhetorical devices!