Are we (still) Human?

In a transitional era in which modernity gives way to liquid post-modernity (Bauman, 2002); in which social relationships grows and fails quickly and randomly; in which places and borders lose their historical and relational identities; in which people seems to be isolated and connected at the same time; it is worth to discuss how progress and technological development are deeply changing even the human being aspect. The result is an unprecedented evolutionary entity, a symbiont in the process of continuous transformation: the homo technologicus (Longo, 2001). Riding the post-human theories for which human being is embodied in an extended technological world (Pepperell, 1995), the paper investigates hybrid design scenarios where biology and technology seem to converge, overlap and contaminate. Robotics, prosthetics, synthetic creativity, artificial intelligence, genetic mutations, are making the boundary between organic and mechanical, natural and artificial, increasingly uncertain materializing new forms of products that will become progressively inherent in our daily lives.