Your views on cybernetic augmentation?

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Kharille

Knight at Arms
Saw a Stephen Hawking movie about how he felt we should adapt people to survive space travel, rather than accept the 20/21st century limitations.  We're already using artificial hearts and stuff as it is. 

How would you feel about partial reconstruction of yourself?  What about breast implant technology?  Seems the Koreans are quite happy to be reconstructed.  How about Wolverine style stuff or Robocop style augmentation?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_enhancement
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyborg

 
To me its a no-brainer.
If a certain technology becomes available it will sooner or later be exploited.
The real question here is "When?"
I'm certainly not looking forward to it though.
 
The thing I want done before I die is a way to keep the brain alive and functional after body decay. Putting it in a robotic body later, of course. No futurama talking heads in jars, please.
 
I want giant shootey laser guns to come out of my arms and the ability too zap people with electricity with nothing more than a touch. Or better, the power of my mind.

I would settle for the giant shootey guns, however.
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosthesis

(Pics of breasts in this one)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breast_implant

Robocop needs one of these...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penile_prosthesis
 
Maybe we can create a mod to add medieval warband enhancements like wooden legs, hook arms and glass eyes.  A little more advanced than Brytenwalda, if a little inconvenient...
 
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Cookie Eating Huskarl said:
Need cybernetic penis. Bonus points if it comes with colour adjustable flashlight and a typhoon autocannon installed like in in Deus Ex :HR.

Having a **** that fires tiny balls around would likely send the wrong idea.
 
I'm more into the idea that nanites could be into body improving it in the inside. Improving my nerve functions, cellular regeneration, and genetic diseases in theory.  Too bad the technology for that is very long way off.
 
I dont see myself amputating parts of my body to replace them with cybernetic ones, but if I were to lose something, I'd certainly replace it if possible.
 
I don't believe that once technology level is reached for appropriate replacements the term "cybernetic" will be applicable. I believe in genetic engineering more than in replacing your buttocks with toasters.
 
Why not just call them prosthetics, which is what they are? Anyway, on one hand I presume it'd go against medical ethics to remove a healthy limb simply because the patient want it. But then again, I could see this slowly becoming something of a cosmetic market. The same way you can get a boob job, fix your nose, etc., you could add mechanical legs/arms/etc.

I'm really interested in what will happen to medicine if this is ever a thing, which is likely that it will.
 
An indirect ethical issue would be the pressure of escalation. Someone who has cerebral implants and has their mental functions extended enormously or at least given a wider range of compatibility with the latest tech will be much more competitive on a wide range of areas where an unaugmented compared to your average untouched person.

It's a lot like athletic or academic doping. Once a sizeable group begins doing it, and doing so openly, everyone else is going to be pressured into doing so as well. For doping there may or may not be harms like health risks that augmentations might have.

Certain people who oppose augmenting their bodies will face an increasing amount of pressure and likely be gradually forced out of  the positions in society they are in now.
 
Ambalon said:
Why not just call them prosthetics, which is what they are? Anyway, on one hand I presume it'd go against medical ethics to remove a healthy limb simply because the patient want it. But then again, I could see this slowly becoming something of a cosmetic market. The same way you can get a boob job, fix your nose, etc., you could add mechanical legs/arms/etc.

I'm really interested in what will happen to medicine if this is ever a thing, which is likely that it will.
I for one don't find metal boobs attractive.
 
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