Practically two thirds of individuals in main Western European international locations would contemplate augmenting the human physique with expertise to enhance their lives, largely to enhance well being, in line with analysis commissioned by Kaspersky.
As humanity journeys additional right into a technological revolution that its leaders say will change each side of our lives, alternatives abound to remodel the methods our our bodies function from guarding in opposition to most cancers to turbo-charging the mind.
The Opinium Research survey of 14,500 individuals in 16 international locations together with Britain, Germany, France, Italy and Spain confirmed that 63 % of individuals would contemplate augmenting their our bodies to enhance them, although the outcomes various throughout Europe.
In Britain, France and Switzerland, assist for augmentation was low, at simply 25 %, 32 % and 36 % respectively, whereas in Portugal and Spain it was a lot larger, at 60 % in each.
“Human augmentation is among the most vital expertise developments at this time,” mentioned Marco Preuss, European director of world analysis and evaluation at Kaspersky, a Moscow-based cybersecurity agency.
“Augmentation fans are already testing the bounds of what is doable, however we’d like generally agreed requirements to make sure augmentation reaches its full potential whereas minimising the dangers,” Preuss mentioned.
Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk’s neuroscience startup Neuralink final month unveiled a pig named Gertrude that has had a coin-sized pc chip in its mind for 2 months, exhibiting off an early step towards the aim of curing human illnesses with the identical sort of implant.
The survey discovered that most individuals wished any human augmentation to work for the nice of humanity, although there have been considerations that it will be harmful for society and open to exploitation by hackers.
The survey confirmed nearly all of individuals felt that solely the wealthy would have the ability to get entry to human augmentation expertise.
© Thomson Reuters 2020
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