Upgrades...

[Steezie]

Fast-foreward 20 years, the virgin market of Body Upgrades is comming into it's own.

You can have almost any part of your body cybernetically enhanced or replaced entirely in favor of a more efficent cybernetic device. The procedure is safe with a less than 1% rejection rate and the devices themselves are constructed in such a way as to ensure they will last much longer than the individuals who they are installed on. The enhancements are guaranteed to not conflict with electrical systems or EMP fields and there has never been a recorded incident of a malfunction that resulted in perminant injury or death.

For example

The applications could range from artificial joints with strength enhancing servos to prevent the degeneration of physical strength with age. An implant that produces nanobots that go through and repair dammaged tissue and cells as well as destroy viruses and other bacteria. A bio-neural processor that would increase memory and functioning speed of the human brain.

These are just some examples.

So if these were avalible to you, what would you get and why? Would you even get any, if not, why not?

And save the jokes "Rocket launcher in the arm!" or "Rockets on my feet!"

 

[PeterMaclellan]

Sure.


Why not?

 

[Mling]

I don't own an ipod, palm pilot or any type of electronic personal organizer. I have to be threatened with bodily harm to carry the cell phone that my family forced on me. I have only the vaguest notion of what a blackberry is, and absolutely no clue about "bluetooth," (may have mangled that, or mixed it up with something else).

I made drinking horns a few summers ago by buying the horns straight off the cow and preparing them myself.
I am most happy when covered with clay, iron scale dust, drywall dust, or other building materials (except for fiberglass insulation *shudder*)

No, I will not be having cybernetic body parts implanted in me any time soon.

I'll get things that are basic and fairly necessary. For example, if not for glasses, I would have been legally blind since I was about 14. If I start to loose my hearing, I'll get a hearing aid. I've already decided that if I ever loose an eye I'll probably just wear a patch (I find glass eyes kind of gross). I'd get a joint replaced with something mechanical and non-electronic if necessary.

I'm just not a fan of "gadgets."

 

[craigerNY]

I'm not allowed to describe here what "upgrade" I'd go with.

 

[Arnold_Philips]

If my insurance covers it, sure.

 

[Lindon Tinuviel]

I made drinking horns a few summers ago by buying the horns straight off the cow....

So... how much does a cow charge?


I'm with you on the anti-gadgetry wagon. What on earth can people who're "connected" 24/7 possibly be talking about?


Anyroad, my upgrade would be a dual brain, so that I could sleep and work at the same time.

 

[.Sabre.]

I don't like "gadgets" myself. I don't want to become a Cyberperson, thank you very much.

 

[TinkaBella]

I have an ankle full of metal now that isn't all that great. If I could "upgrade" to something that would make it good as new I'd do it in a heartbeat.

 

[Mling]

So... how much does a cow charge?


I'm with you on the anti-gadgetry wagon. What on earth can people who're "connected" 24/7 possibly be talking about?


Anyroad, my upgrade would be a dual brain, so that I could sleep and work at the same time.

Well, the farm charged $10 for four or five of them, but a few were really damaged. I didn't think to examine the goods in front of them, and, as they were really disgusting in that state, I wanted to get them out of my hands as quickly as possible, so I just asked for a bag and dropped them in.

The cows weren't in any position to be making demands by that point.

 

[Caylin]

Everything I could get.

 

[Lindon Tinuviel]

The cows weren't in any position to be making demands by that point.

Workers' Comp, at least?

A buddy of mine decided against becoming a doctor after just such a dehorning episode. "It was just so warm," he kept repeating.

 

[ranmaonehalf]

I don't own an ipod, palm pilot or any type of electronic personal organizer. I have to be threatened with bodily harm to carry the cell phone that my family forced on me. I have only the vaguest notion of what a blackberry is, and absolutely no clue about "bluetooth," (may have mangled that, or mixed it up with something else).

I made drinking horns a few summers ago by buying the horns straight off the cow and preparing them myself.
I am most happy when covered with clay, iron scale dust, drywall dust, or other building materials (except for fiberglass insulation *shudder*)

No, I will not be having cybernetic body parts implanted in me any time soon.

I'll get things that are basic and fairly necessary. For example, if not for glasses, I would have been legally blind since I was about 14. If I start to loose my hearing, I'll get a hearing aid. I've already decided that if I ever loose an eye I'll probably just wear a patch (I find glass eyes kind of gross). I'd get a joint replaced with something mechanical and non-electronic if necessary.

I'm just not a fan of "gadgets."

so if you were blind and completely deaf *thanks mling* would you want to see or hear again? and how is your gadget computer?

 

[Mling]

If I'm completely death, I'm in as much position to worry about it as those cows.

If I were completely blind or deaf....maybe, depends on how well the thingies work, and how well I'm getting along without them. I mean, if I've been doing ok, and then something comes along that crudely immitates sight, then maybe I'd use one once in a while for certain things, but not all the time. Don't know about hearing.

Computer isn't mine.

 

[Patzak]

I'm not against such modifications in principle and if they were safe enough I would perhaps consider having them. Memory chips for example or such. But on the other hand, I wear glasses because I find the procedure of sticking a contact lens in my eye to be too invasive, so I doubt I would be the first in line to have my skull cracked open and something connected to my brain.

 

[ranmaonehalf]

..
Computer isn't mine.

so it would be ok to borrow other gadgets then?

p.s. thanks for the death correction.