Technology pushes sporting boundaries

According to Dr Andy Miah, a British bioethicist, the line between using technology to improve sporting equipment and using it to improve the bodies of its practitioners is becoming increasingly blurred.

“Sports are technologically enabled practises,” Miah said.

“We are pushing the limits of the body technologically and creatively - and I think the relationship between those two is quite close.

“People are fascinated with what the body can do in various kinds of performances.”

Miah, who was in Brisbane this week to address a conference organised by the Australian Sports Commission, said functional elective surgery in sport is a more immediate issue than the long-feared emergence of genetically manipulated athletes.

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