Design not incremental improvement but radical visionDesign for AlienNow in 2018, we are already becoming “cyborgs,” as Donna Haraway argued in the Cyborg Manifesto [1] about 30 years ago. The breakdown of boundaries between “human and animal,” “animal-human and machine,” and” physical and non-physical” she anticipated is taking place with current studies such as living systems theory, artificial organs, and natural science. In the next 30 years, American futurist Ray Kurzweil [2] predicts th...

Design not incremental improvement but radical visionDesign for AlienNow in 2018, we are already becoming “cyborgs,” as Donna Haraway argued in the Cyborg Manifesto [1] about 30 years ago. The breakdown of boundaries between “human and animal,” “animal-human and machine,” and” physical and non-physical” she anticipated is taking place with current studies such as living systems theory, artificial organs, and natural science. In the next 30 years, American futurist Ray Kurzweil [2] predicts th...