Cybernetics

[Steezie]

Assume that you live in the time when cybernetics are widely avalible to the general public. Modifications are avalible for almost any part of the body. They have proven to be safe, reliable, and with regular maintinence they can be virtually free of malfunction. You can get them in either the obvious variety (Cybernetically replacing an entire limb) or you can use only modifications that exist under the skin so you do not appear to be modified at all.

So my question is this, do you get any of these implants? Why or why not? If you feel that these modifications are wrong, why?

Heres a small example of what kind of modifications may be avalible in future

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[TheManeki]

Except the ears and eyes will be automatically shut off when they start processing any DRM-protected content you do not have a license for.

And what happens when your heart gets a blue screen of death?

 

[StarCannon]

Heh. I'd get the blackmarket versions that don't have the protection screens. Sign me up for ALL of them. Heh heh. I've been dreaming of that stuff for AGES.

 

[happydance]

I would pass on all of it. The only way I would consider it is if I sustained an injury. . . I am too chicken to even get corrective eye surgery.

 

[Battie]

The digestive one is tempting because my stomach gets upset so easily, but otherwise I wouldn't get one unless it would save my life -- and only then *maybe*.

 

[ArchaicTruth]

Depends on the context, as usual. Living the normal, cushy civy life like I am now, I'd pass on them, however, when duty calls, duty gets.

 

[StarCannon]

Well, I like sharp pointy objects (like swords and knives and anything that can maim kill and hurt); and I have an interest in martial arts... I mean, could you imagine the power? Meh? I dunno, I just think it'd be kinda cool to have all those enhancements. Why, I'd go a loooong way to get some of those, if only to get rid of my glasses.

 

[EnemyPartyII]

I can't see how cybernetics would be any different to contact lenses

 

[StarCannon]

No, but they'd be infinitely cooler! XD

 

[Bombila]

Just make the little nanobot factories sophisticated enough to make what you need when you need it, then they break it down and restore whatever you like your normal mode to be. Takes the massive surgical invasions out of the picture.

 

[Blayz]

rip out my brain and stick it in a box. I am good for all of it.

Ghost in the Shell ftw

 

[WatersMoon110]

I want a microchip with the Internet on it inserted into my brain. *grin*

 

[Renton405]

Assume that you live in the time when cybernetics are widely avalible to the general public. Modifications are avalible for almost any part of the body. They have proven to be safe, reliable, and with regular maintinence they can be virtually free of malfunction. You can get them in either the obvious variety (Cybernetically replacing an entire limb) or you can use only modifications that exist under the skin so you do not appear to be modified at all.

So my question is this, do you get any of these implants? Why or why not? If you feel that these modifications are wrong, why?

Heres a small example of what kind of modifications may be avalible in future

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Steezie, have you been watching too much sci-fi? Johnny Mnemonic?? lol

I don't think our bodys could handle it. Considering the problems with infection and the bodys natural rejection of foreign material. On a moral level I would think its wrong, unless used to help people with disease. You could imagine what would happen if the government got their hands on it..

 

[Renton405]

I want a microchip with the Internet on it inserted into my brain. *grin*

In 2002,under the heading Project Cyborg, a British Scientist, Kevin Warwick, had an array of 100 electrodes fired in to his nervous system in order to link his nervous system into the internet. With this in place he successfully carried out a series of experiments including extending his nervous system over the internet to control a robotic hand, a form of extended sensory input and the first direct electronic communication between the nervous systems of two humans

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA

 

[Steezie]

Steezie, have you been watching too much sci-fi? Johnny Mnemonic?? lol

With technology going the way it is, this is becoming less and less science fiction. There are already replacement limbs that act on the body's own nerve impulses and movements. Soon those limbs may be wired to the brain itself and act just like a real arm

I don't think our bodys could handle it. Considering the problems with infection and the bodys natural rejection of foreign material.

Our bodies can and do frequently handle a large ammount of foreign bodies. These implants would be along the same lines as an artificial heart.

On a moral level I would think its wrong, unless used to help people with disease. You could imagine what would happen if the government got their hands on it..

The government WILL get its hands on this technology first. Many current consumer products started out as military technology.

 

[ArchaicTruth]

In 2002,under the heading Project Cyborg, a British Scientist, Kevin Warwick, had an array of 100 electrodes fired in to his nervous system in order to link his nervous system into the internet. With this in place he successfully carried out a series of experiments including extending his nervous system over the internet to control a robotic hand, a form of extended sensory input and the first direct electronic communication between the nervous systems of two humans

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA

Forgive my language but...

holy [wash my mouth][wash my mouth][wash my mouth][wash my mouth][wash my mouth][wash my mouth][wash my mouth][wash my mouth]

that is so cool

 

[TheManeki]

rip out my brain and stick it in a box. I am good for all of it.

Ghost in the Shell ftw

I was thinking more of the AD Police Files. A little graphic, but (like Ghost in the Shell) a good meditation on the question of constitutes "human."

 

[ranmaonehalf]

I can't see how cybernetics would be any different to contact lenses

i think its more on par with corrective eye surgery or plastic surgery.

Contacts are more like powersuits.

I myself my go for a better heart or nanotech.

Due to my perfect design i have MVP. "i really got to talk to the designer about its perfect design and maybe get some improvements. Maybe im a beta model.."

 

[Silent Enigma]

It'd come down to price for me. The main thing I'd save up for would be brain enhancement.

 

[Paulos23]

I would augment this tired out old body in a second! Heck, give me a whole prosthetic body and stick my brain in it. Then when the brain finally gives out I am sure they will have a prosthetic brain to download into.

Then I could get some serous exploring of this universe done.