Ars Electronica 2017: Drone Dawn
Technology, for Karle, is a chance to overcome impairments, to augment the body… also she states 'I am a great advocate of medical freedom.' Karle pleads not for eugenics or compulsive augmentation, but for the self-determination of every human being... What worries Karle is a possible class contrast between those who will afford expensive implants and prostheses and the poor. The checks and balances for this, as well as for genetics, are simply not yet mature. It is precisely the changes made by genetic engineering that can not be reversed, fears Karle. (translated)
