Further to the article which suggested that the future of record-breaking in sport may lie in editing of the human genome, this article asks: ‘With technology and pharmaceuticals dominating our reality, how do we define “natural” human effort in sports?’ The author, David Epstein, highlights the the arbitrariness of some of the decisions that have been made about what constitutes fairness, and the inconsistencies between sports. ‘When technology replaces training or supplements biology, the lines that limn what is fair will be a bit like Schrödinger’s cat: Our collective gaze will create them.’
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Lifestream, Diigo: Have We Reached the Athletic Limits of the Human Body? – Scientific American
Article suggests that the future of record-breaking may lie in genome editing – but that traditional doping will continue as new biological and chemical enhancements stay ahead of detection/policing bodies.
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