| In The Book, The Taboo Against Knowing Who You | | | | that patients will be able to regenerate their own |
| Are, Alan Watts has suggested that we humans may | | | | hearts, lungs, livers, and kidneys. |
| become nothing more than replicas. Replicas made of | | | | Desmond Morris in his The Human Zoo has suggested |
| plastic and steel, electrodes, and computer chips. | | | | we have become captive animals and have become |
| Nearly every organ of the human body can be | | | | so by our own volition. Such captivity results in the loss |
| replaced: heart, lungs, kidneys, liver, limbs, even the | | | | of privacy, of freedom, restriction on travel, and |
| human face. Can a brain transplant be far behind? | | | | income. Cell phones can be used to track an individual, |
| Cloning of animals has been successful. How long | | | | GPS systems can be used to locate a person, new |
| before a human being is cloned? It doesn't end there. | | | | scanning devices can see through one's clothing. Such |
| Robert Edwards, the British pioneer in test-tube babies, | | | | a captivity creates new psychological issues. |
| has indicated that it will not be too far into the future | | | | |