Military Medical Sciences 2014;(1):6-9

doi:10.7644/j.issn.1674-9960.2014.01.002

Human enhancement technology and its military applications and impacts

Tiezhu LOU ; Shu LIU ; Tianxi DIAO

Keywords

human enhancement; military applications; military personnel; negative impacts

Country

China

Language

Chinese

Abstract

Human enhancement technology is an emerging field that aims to enhance human physical and mental power of humans with the latest developments of the life science , information science , electronic science , cognitive neuroscience and other fields .This paper provides an overview of status quo of human enhancement technology and its military applica -tions, and analyzes the factors that may adversely affect its applications .