If you could have the outlandish strength and agility of Halo's Master Chief, how much would you spend?
For the uninitiated, Master Chief is the hero of the Halo video game series. A heavily genetically enhanced super soldier, he can run faster, jump higher, see further, think faster, and endure longer than regular humans. So powerful is Master Chief that his alien adversaries think of him as a "demon" because of his ability to destroy hundreds or sometimes thousands of alien soldiers.
And a genetically engineered human isn't a wild fantasy. Researchers have recently made impressive advances in real-life human enhancement — including in human genetic engineering and cyborg enhancements, like mechanical muscles and cognitive implants — that are inching us closer to the technologies that Halo and countless other sci-fi examples predicted. While still purely speculative, these technologies could one day have huge effects on society.
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