- Title
- Human enhancing technology: fast tech suits
- Creator
- Trevallion, Deborah
- Relation
- International Journal of Innovation, Creativity and Change Vol. 13, Issue 8, p. 20-30
- Publisher
- Primrose Hall
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2020
- Description
- Human enhancement technology can be described as the natural, artificial, or technological alteration of the human body in order to enhance physical and / or mental capabilities. Human enhancement is a blossoming topic in applied ethics. With continuing advances in science and technology, some basic parameters of the human condition might be changed. One way in which the human condition could be changed is through the enhancement of basic human capacities like swimming. The aim of this research is to investigate the suggestion that a fast tech swim suit, like those used to break swimming records at the Olympic games, is a form of human enhancing technology? Are the worlds Olympians, who hate drug cheats, using the fast tech suits as a form of “technical doping”? This article explains just what a fast tech suit is and how it works, it traces the origin of the modern fast tech swim suits and discusses developments, noting important features and how these benefit the swimmer. The environmental impact of these suits is considered as is whether these suits actually make a difference. The article analyses Olympic records and explains The Federation International Swimming Association (FINA) response, giving ethical consideration to human enhancement technology.
- Subject
- fast tech suits; technical doping; olympic swimming records; applied ethics; human enhancement technologies; compression suits
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1435957
- Identifier
- uon:39874
- Identifier
- ISSN:2201-1323
- Language
- eng
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