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    Enhancement

    By Ned Stephenson

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    Enhancement is a collection of short stories that consider what life would be like if humans drew energy directly from sunlight. Why have we not altered our bodies so we can photosynthesise?

     

    How much of our life would change if we could do so? Perhaps we would eat less, rest more, reduce our damage to the environment, maybe live far into our hundreds.

     

    An Australian university student starts the world down this path by extracting algae from corals and implanting it into human skin cells.

     

    After this success, the technology spreads around the globe until the number of people able to photosynthesise reaches the hundreds of millions, but then the proliferation stalls as nations push back claiming the enhancement is bringing about the end of humanity.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNed Stephenson
    Release dateJun 1, 2020
    ISBN9781393722878

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