In the popular imagination, the technologically altered human being is a cross between RoboCop and the Borg.

The hardware that would make such a mating of humans, silicon chips and assorted weaponry a reality is, unfortunately, still on back order.

Many people, however, have already made a different kind of leap into the posthuman future.

This is a social change on the same order as the advent of computers.

Behaviors and physiological changes that were once simply aspects of life have been turned into syndromes or diseases.