The Inconvenient Aug

The Inconvenient Aug is a book written by Talos Rucker that explains his view on the human augmentation technology. Excerpts from this book can be found in Deus Ex: Mankind Divided.

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The Inconvenient Aug By Talos Rucker

Chapter 2: Hope and Uplift - Potential Unealized
This chapter can be found in the security room in Rucker's office.

At the time when Hugh Darrow and his team were perfecting the technology, en route to redefining the very face of Humanity as we knew it, a fundamental mistake was committed, with only the most noblest of intentions, which, as we came to understand the ramifications of this new technology, proved to be the very exemplar of 'damning by definition': They called the resulting prosthetics 'Augmentations'.

In a very short while, this weighted term became the discussion: embraced by those who sought out this technology for their own purposes, and rejected with equal passion by those who opposed it.

In the process, the social discourse lost all perspective of the myriad uses of augmentation technology in medicine, the awe-inspiring depth and breadth of what we could accomplish, if the governments, societies, and medical communities of the world would only capitalise on Augmentation technology's staggering possibilities.