FUTURE INSIGHT

Rohit Talwar on the rise of the superhuman and the challenges for L&D How will learning and development cope with the _ growing trend of humans augmenting their basic capabilities with chemical, electronic, physical and genetic enhancements? [...]the notion of the transhuman could emerge. Advances in cognitive enhancement drugs and nootropic supplements, electronic brain stimulation techniques, genetic modification, age extension treatments, 3D printed limbs and organs, and body worn exoskeletons have given rise to the notion of enhancing the human brain and body well beyond the limits of natural evolutionary processes.