Future Perfect

Manash Bagchi

To glisten up my skin, I grafted a nano-pack;
Repaired a broken femur, bio-welding the crack.
I was truly nervous on an examination day,
Gulping IQ pills helped me to stay
Still in the race to secure a pilot’s post,
For the spaceship whose fuel is called ‘ghost’.

Moving near photon’s speed, now we hardly age;
So no pain we feel in the knee or rib cage.
Injuries are healed in organs or limbs
Augmenting the tissue using nanotech-prosthetics.

Beauty queen grown out of pluripotent cell
Sent me a marriage proposal through inter-galactic mail.
I am omni-powerful, I am Hyper homo class;
Flawless is my character written in AI Z++.

The Science

Nanotech-enabled augmentations could give rise to a new biological class of human being with a modified structure of anatomy and functional physiology in future. The convergence of other advanced technologies can synthesize made-to-order humans and enable relativistic travel. It is an imaginative and a little fun-filled future projection.

The Poet

Manash Bagchi is a Senior Curator (Physics and Computer Systems) in the National Council of Science Museums, an Autonomous Scientific organization of the Ministry of Culture, Government of India. Besides working towards technology development for the museums, Manash has curated several topical galleries among which one is a Genomics Hall for the National Institute of Biomedical Genomics that was inaugurated by the Nobel laureate Professor Harold Varmus on 11th November, 2018.