Why not take steps to be sure?

What do you have that that guy doesn’t? What puts you ahead… give you an edge? A better throwing arm? Keener vision? Memory? Perhaps the ability to regenerate or teleport? What gets you the job, the car, the wife, instead of him? According to the good folks at Wired, one may be able to acquire these sorts of self-given-gifts at some point in the not-too-distant future.
Read here.

Apparently inspired by Dr. Xavier’s band of motley mutants, the media has recently been focusing on human embetterment. Not the kind that requires 12 or so steps or the learning of a new language, but the kind that allows one to shoot lasers from one eyes. I recently caught a clip on TechTV about human body modification. They were all hot about memory improvement, brain implants for wireless internet connectivity, and muscle enhancement that would allow for faster running, higher jumping, more Ferrigno-looking humans of the future.

Meanwhile, I’ll be underground with a few cases of Jolt; studying X-Men comics and searching for their weaknesses.