Working in Movement

Thanks to a mention on Cool Tools, I've just started reading Radical Evolution by journalist Joel Garreau. The basic premise seems to be that developments in genetics, robotics, information processing and nanotechnology will drive the ability of humans to enhance themselves in some pretty astounding ways. And all this is not in the distant future; it's starting to happen now.

Garreau doesn't approach this from a "gee-whiz look at how great this technology is" perspective, but from the angle of human nature. The main ideas hinge on some very basic changes to what it means to be a human being -- the biggest changes in thousands of years. He explores this in three scenarios that play out the implications of all this stuff.

One of first things to hit me here is that enhancement demands adaptability, as in the human nervous system. It is the human learning and adapting capacity that makes all of this thinkable in the first place. Wonder if the remaining parts of the book will explore that?