Posthuman Blues

Of mice, men and in-between

"Imagine, said Robert Streiffer, a professor of philosophy and bioethics at the University of Wisconsin, a human-chimpanzee chimera endowed with speech and an enhanced potential to learn -- what some have called a 'humanzee.'"

I can see this happening within 20 years. Moreover, I can see nations using armies of specially trained "humanzees" as stand-ins for human soldiers in the many wars to come. (It's almost embarrassing how "Planet of the Apes" all this sounds.)