Tecnología, rendimiento deportivo y transhumanismo

Abstract

This essay is about the sports as one of the most powerful and influential institutions of today’s societies. In them, constant demands for stellar performances, coupled with the urgency of victories and spectacle, are customary and celebrated. These well combined factors have prompted a never-ending search for the expansion of human capabilities; and to this end, the undeniable aid of technology has become accepted without much resistance. Evolution no longer does the job in an exclusive way. Technology has stepped into the process speeding up dramatically a certain redesign of the human body within a promising landscape. Nevertheless, it is always possible to find exceptions to this sweeping influence within the vast world of sports.