Under an Open Review, the Augmented Weigh a Choice That Has No Verdict Yet

The safety review of Somaform Augmetics' neural-interface line remains open and contested this August, and the people who most feel that unresolved state are the roughly five percent of humans already living with augmentation. In a Seattle clinic, an augmentation counsellor named Yusra spends her days with clients who must decide whether to proceed while regulators still deliberate. "They want me to tell them it's safe or it isn't," she said. "The honest answer is that the review is still asking." Dr. Naomi Eze reports that neither the company's advocates nor its critics claim the matter is closed — Somaform's founder frames augmentation as a right, while safety bodies keep the file open. For the augmented, the debate is not abstract: it is a body they already live in, and a question about it that the world has not finished asking, carried quietly through an ordinary summer.