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Beyond the Upgrade: What Makes an Enhanced Life Your Own?

March 1, 2016

My illustration entitled: "The Dawn of the Self-Created Human" - A highly enhanced transhuman emerges from an enormous translucent biological cocoon inside a ruined stone amphitheater. Titanium limbs, lumin...

The Freedom to Change Your Mind After Changing Your Body

January 28, 2016

Opinion, Visual Arts

My illustration entitled: "The Wings We Chose" - highly enhanced woman unfurls enormous biomechanical wings on a mountain summit. Featherlike solar membranes, metallic bones and living tissue form a strikin...

No One Should Be Born Into a License Agreement: Genetic Data and Biological Ownership

October 16, 2015

Opinion, Visual Arts

My illustration entitled: "The DNA Contract" — A newborn’s DNA helix unspools into a dense corporate agreement, while a parent reaches to protect the child from signing. A license agreement is a contra...

More Capable, Less Free: When Human Enhancement Becomes Human Subordination

August 12, 2015

Opinion, Visual Arts

My illustration entitled: "The Next Human" - A transhuman stands on a cliff above a vast future civilization: exposed titanium limbs, subtle bioluminescent skin, luminous neural pathways and graceful organi...

The Genetic Right to an Open Future

May 20, 2015

Opinion, Visual Arts

My illustration entitled: "Inheritance and Freedom" — Three generations stand beneath a tree whose branches form a DNA helix, with the youngest child stepping beyond its roots. Genetic technology holds...

The Sovereign Patient: Human Rights in the Age of Therapeutic Enhancement

February 19, 2015

Opinion, Visual Arts

My illustration entitled: "The Insurance Threshold" — A patient faces an insurance AI that offers coverage only if they accept an enhancement, while an advocate stands beside them. Medicine is becoming...

Equality After Enhancement: A Civic Charter for Enhanced and Unenhanced Persons

November 18, 2014

Opinion, Visual Arts

My illustration entitled: "The Equal Future Bridge". Enhanced and unenhanced citizens meet at the centre of a bridge connecting two districts of a future city. Human enhancement raises an old political...

The Upgrade Trap: When Enhancement Becomes Economic Coercion

July 17, 2014

Opinion, Visual Arts

My illustration entitled: "The Race That Cannot Be Refused" - Office workers sprint on a futuristic treadmill toward a finish line labelled “Employability,” while upgrade stations inject new devices along t...

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