Verb (used with object), : The candelight enhanced her beauty. ,Rarity enhances the worth of old coins. From Dictionary.com.
Fukuyama, for example, endorses technologies designed for world-engineering purposes but rejects those aimed at person-engineering - in particular, those technologies of an enhancive nature. From Wordnik.com. [Ethical Technology] Reference
The automobile may thus be understood as an enhancive extension of the driver's own body, i.e., the driver-automobile "coupled system" yields a kind of cybernetic organism, albeit one that pushes to the limit our pre-theoretic intuitions about where the individual ends and the environment begins. From Wordnik.com. [Ethical Technology] Reference
Consider the difference between wanting to make love more reliable: a) because reliability conduces to greater human happiness (e.g., by decreasing the probability of a traumatic break-up, or so one argument might go); and b) because reliability is an attribute exemplified by machines, and as machines ourselves (albeit "squishy" ones) it therefore follows that we should be reliable too (and, of course, the way to do this is through enhancive techno-interventions). From Wordnik.com. [Ethical Technology] Reference
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