Transhumanism

Indeed we can use logic to make things look more logical but we can also use it to produce illusions. Marvin Minsky MIT, AI Lab

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Cornell University scientists pioneer spinal surgery with 3D printed
replacements for degenerative spinal discs.

Doctors save Ohio toddler by 'printing' him an airway tube

In a medical first, doctors used plastic particles and a 3-D laser printer to create an airway splint to save the life of a baby boy who used to stop breathing nearly every day. here to edit.

Printing a human kidney

Surgeon Anthony Atala demonstrates an early-stage experiment that could someday solve the organ-donor problem: a 3D printer that uses living cells to output a transplantable kidney. Using similar technology, Dr. Atala's young patient Luke Massella received an engineered bladder 10 years ago; we meet him onstage. Talk recorded 3 March 2011.

As we gain ever greater control over the atomic structure of matter, our
technological goals become increasingly ambitious, and their payoffs more and
more generous. Sometimes new technologies even make us happier in a long-lasting way: the Internet would be a prime example. In the following list I take a look at what I consider the top ten transhumanist technologies.

After Carmen Tarleton's estranged husband doused her with industrial-strength lye, doctors saved her life with a medically induced coma and more than 50 surgeries. For four years Tarleton lived with this reality, plus enormous amounts of pain.
Then her plastic surgeon at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston made a
suggestion. He'd recently done the first facial transplant in the United States, and he thought it might work for her.

Living Cells Can Now Be Used to Build a Computer
In the course of the past year, my mind's been blown so many times by breakthroughs in biotechnolgy that I wasn't even surprised when I read about a bunch of MIT researchers building a computer out of living cells. After all, scientists can now store data on a single molecule or, if that's not small enough, a single strand of artificial DNA. Some are also working on invisible microchips made of carbon nanotubes, and doctors are already talking about using nanotechnology for everything from monitoring organ functioning to zapping cancer cells.

Transhuman golem
Lisa Necks (M.A. in Media Studies, working toward. a Ph.D. in Modern Intellectual History and Literature) wrote an interesting article which covers transhumanism, in a manner of speaking, based on a consideration of the infamous golem (“The Golem: between the technological and the divine,” Journal of Social and Evolutionary Systems, Volume 21, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 281-303).