20 New Biotech Breakthroughs

Article:
http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/health/breakthroughs/4303407

Primary Focus: Biotechnology

This is a pretty neat article on 20 different biotechnology advances. I thought it was pretty amazing at first and that all these advances would be really helpful in medicine which in turn would help people live longer, but as I kept going down the list things started to get kind of a science fiction vibe. Things like "2.Artificial Nymph Nodes, 7.Smart Contact Lenses, 8. Speech Restorer, 14.Autonomous Wheelchair, and 20.Rocket-Powered Arms." left me wondering if this is almost TOO much advances in biotechnology for medicine. Sure, its great to be able to help people with the technology we have today but these things literally seem like they would make the person almost robotic. If someone needed to have even half of those things on that list to stay alive their body would be running more on technology than by themselves. If we need to keep adding these things to people then their physical body will literally be more robotic than human, which seems kind of counter productive. This makes me feel like there should be a limit to how much we use our medical advances, we shouldn't be using technology for people to live forever, and we shouldn't be using our technology if people basically can't live unless their whole existence depends on the machines. If we start turning humans into machines in order to live longer than we'll be literally and physical losing our humanity. Death is natural and if its not meant to be then its just not meant to be - we should not be pushing these boundaries too far.