Olympics will Become Paralympics as Technology Enhances Humans

With technology increasingly enhancing human abilities, a day will come when Olympics become the Paralympics, envisions scientist Sethuraman "Panch" Panchanathan, from the US National Science Board by President Barack Obama. "You will find the so-called Paralympics could one day be for people who are high achievers and Olympics are for losers. If I had legs that were bionic, I would run faster. There will be a day when Olympics will become Paralympics and Paralympics will become Olympics," Panchanathan said at a keynote address at a conference here on Friday. "When you are talking of moving people from disability to ability, you can liken it to moving people from ability to super-ability. We all want to be super-able," he explained.