Your Bionic Future
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Cover; Your Bionic Future; by Staff Editor; 1 Page(s)

Table of Contents; Your Bionic Future; by Staff Editor; 2 Page(s)

Masthead; Your Bionic Future; by Staff Editor; 1 Page(s)

Introduction: Your Bionic Future; Your Bionic Future; by Zorpette, Ezzell; 2 Page(s)

As life and technology merge, they will both become more interesting

Your New Body/Couture Cures: This Drug's For You; Your Bionic Future; by Hopkin; 4 Page(s)

Doctors may one day sneak a peek at your genes to determine which drugs will cure you and which might kill you.

Your New Body/Growing New Organs; Your Bionic Future; by Mooney, Mikos; 6 Page(s)

Researchers have taken the first steps toward creating semisynthetic, living organs that can be used as human replacement parts

Your New Body/Embryonic Stem Cells For Medicine; Your Bionic Future; by Pedersen; 6 Page(s)

Cells able to generate virtually all other cell types have recently been isolated. One day they could help repair a wide variety of damaged tissues.

Your New Body/Head Transplants; Your Bionic Future; by White; 3 Page(s)

Equipping old minds with new bodies - whether you call it head transplantation or body transplantation - is not outside science?s ken. How would it work?

Your New Body/Muscular Again; Your Bionic Future; by Zorpette; 5 Page(s)

Within a decade or two, scientists will create a genetic vaccine that increases muscle mass - without exercise.

Your New Body/Making Methuselah; Your Bionic Future; by Hopkin; 6 Page(s)

Immortality may not be in the cards, but worms, flies and pigeons may be able to teach us a thing or two about living better longer.

Your New Senses/Are Your Ready For a New Sensation?; Your Bionic Future; by Brown; 6 Page(s)

As biology meets engineering, scientists are designing the sensory experiences of a new tomorrow.

Your New Senses/Feeling the Future; Your Bionic Future; by Strauss; 4 Page(s)

Our sense of touch will not be replaceable, it will be enhanceable.

Your New Senses/Getting Real In Cyberspace; Your Bionic Future; by Pescovitz; 4 Page(s)

Virtual reality is not in suspended animation. Lately researchers have made impressive advances in conveying the senses of smell and touch.

Your New Senses/Nosing Out a Mate; Your Bionic Future; by Pescovitz; 4 Page(s)

All other mammals rely on chemical attractants to find that special someone. Will human suitors of the future be able to pack the power of pheromomes?

Your New Mind/The Coming Merging of Mind and Machine; Your Bionic Future; by Kurzweil; 5 Page(s)

The accelerating pace of technological progress means that our intelligent creations will soon eclipse us - and that their creations will eventually eclipse them.

Your New Mind/Tweaking the Genetics of Behavior; Your Bionic Future; by Hamer; 6 Page(s)

How might new advances in behavioral genetics affect you and your children? A fictional couple plays design-a-baby

Your New Look/When Off-The-Rack Becomes Off-The-Net; Your Bionic Future; by Gray; 4 Page(s)

Virtual-reality technology, the Internet and computer-aided manufacturing may soon combine to bring custom clothing to your closet.

Your New Look/Smart Stuff; Your Bionic Future; by Brown; 2 Page(s)

The jewelry box of the future could include rings that remember your predilection for vanilla-flavored café au lait.

Your New Look/What The Well-Dressed Warrior Will Wear; Your Bionic Future; by Nadis; 2 Page(s)

Power-generating, chameleonic clothes, food made from bugs and leaves, and tiny robotic scouts may assist the soldier of the next century.

Your New Society/Will We Be One Nation, Indivisible?; Your Bionic Future; by Agnew; 4 Page(s)

Racial tensions will ease and disparities will narrow, but experts disagree on whether racism will disappear even in 100 years.

Your New Society/I, Clone; Your Bionic Future; by Green; 4 Page(s)

Sometime, somewhere, someone will generate a cloned human being. What will happen then

Your New Lifestyle/Living in Technology; Your Bionic Future; by Joseph; 4 Page(s)

Powerful microprocessors and the Internet may finally deliver whole-house control. But are you ready for the "therapists of the new millennium"?

Your New Lifestyle/Future Feast; Your Bionic Future; by Kling; 4 Page(s)

Even the meat and potatoes are being reinvented: the meat could come from a test tube, and the potatoes could ward off cholera.

Your New Lifestyle/The New Metropolis; Your Bionic Future; by Kling; 3 Page(s)

Can "new urbanism" be applied to urban America?

Your New Lifestyle/The Ultimate Baby Bottle; Your Bionic Future; by Powledge; 4 Page(s)

Are artificial wombs our future? Was Aldous Huxley right?

Endnote: Future Schlock; Your Bionic Future; by Mirsky; 1 Page(s)

Prediction is fraught with peril, especially when it's about the future.