The Body and Beyond

The future begins with the body. Everything we will build and create has to do with it, whether by keeping it healthy and safe from harm, creating better environments for it, testing its limits, or breaking free from them. We have always attempted to bypass our biological limits, and we are getting better and better at it. How far can this impulse take us, and what will the consequences be – for individuals and society at large?

This issue of FARSIGHT examines the future of human augmentation, longevity, and transformation. Could we ever reach a future free from pain? What might the future of sex look like? Could cryonics ever become mainstream? Through interviews with transhumanists, futurists, and industry executives, we delve into the future of what you are most intimately connected to — your body.