We are already well into the morning of human-machine interface. We may come in trailing clouds of glory, but we are soon met by the spume of nuclear smoke. Technology already does or soon will partner the major experiences of human life — from conceiving babies to dying. Human capacities will soon be enhanced by biomachine interfaces — fetuses spawned in tubes and raised like guppies in hospital incubation tanks, organs replaced routinely by clever machines, grandmothers past menopause giving birth to their own grandchildren, genes spliced and looped. The human body is being redesigned, microelectrodes implanted in the brain to expand one's senses and extend one's memory, reality mediated through computer-synthesized virtual forms, and even death delayed or defeated. Human-machine hybrids are the likely arbiters of this brave new world. The resurrection of Junior in a form light-years beyond my dad's zany conception is almost assured.
— Jean Houston, A Mythic Life