= Beyond Human =
=== How Cutting-Edge Science is Extending our Lives ===
=== Eve Herold 2016 St. Martin's Beaverton 174.2 HER ===

 .p100 TATRC Karl Friedl (no references, sigh)
  .p103 every good idea needs a "zealot" ... "The magic number seems to be ten - ten years while everyone shoots in down, and then something happens, the idea takes off,and then suddenly everybody is all over it.  Without a zealot to weather all the criticism, the idea will be killed."

Not a useful book.  The author is a "Science Writer" (== journalist), a collector of factoids and quotes without scientific/functional understanding.  A lot of he says / she says, with lists of hyperbolistic benefits and hyperbolistic pessimism.

For example, chapter on brain enhancement seems ignorant of brain physiology.  

 .p127 "promotes neurogenesis, or the birth of new brain cells and the sprouting of new connections"
  . not true, see http://www.pnas.org/content/103/33/12564.full.pdf

There might be a few useful pointers to real science in this book, but I don't have time to sift through it.