Researchers are developing ways to give people superpower-like abilities such as sonar and night vision.
Sensor signals are sent to the brain via an electrode strip on the tongue, enabling people to feel images, including the sound echoes of sonar. The technology could be used to add senses, or replace them. “In testing, blind people found doorways, noticed people walking in front of them and caught balls,” the article says.
The research is funded by the US Defense Department–another sign that people are likely to try to create the enhanced combatants of Soldier, but through non-genetic means.
Science fiction coming to life!
I read this article with great interest and e-mailed it to family and friends.
An interesting take on the subject:
http://www.accelerating.org/articles/hpe2032army.html
I have spent a bit of time in the past 5 years on new combat suit development for the US Army. Their biggest concern was how to keep expensive, “enhanced” individuals alive once they had been maimed and how to locate those individuals without interception by the enemy.