Your views on cybernetic augmentation?

[Austupaio]

Avatar from the standard gallery, what do you expect?

 

[Vermillion_Hawk]

I thoroughly enjoy all the soft, squishy aspects of the human body personally. Efficacy, safety and health would be great advantages to being a metal and polymer behemoth, but I like ****ing a bit too much to ever consider it.

By the point that we have functioning neural-networked cybernetic implants capable of replacing said squishy parts, we'll also probably have some sort of ridiculous neural pleasure simulator as well.

 

[pentagathus]

develop your squishy

You are talking about masturbation here right?

 

[Dodes]

It's technically not masturbation if its jelqing.

 

[Swadius 2.0]

I thoroughly enjoy all the soft, squishy aspects of the human body personally. Efficacy, safety and health would be great advantages to being a metal and polymer behemoth, but I like ****ing a bit too much to ever consider it.

By the point that we have functioning neural-networked cybernetic implants capable of replacing said squishy parts, we'll also probably have some sort of ridiculous neural pleasure simulator as well.

This is probably going to see some resistence by one group or another. I can't imagine people being alright with people who put themselves into a perpetual state of nirvana and doing scant else. Judging by the number of people who would take a fake but otherwise gargantuanlly gratifying existence in that one thread this is probably going to be a major problem.

 

[rebelknight]

I thoroughly enjoy all the soft, squishy aspects of the human body personally. Efficacy, safety and health would be great advantages to being a metal and polymer behemoth, but I like ****ing a bit too much to ever consider it.

I wouldn't mind having sex with a Cyborg.

I actually find this character sexually attractive.

Spoiler

 

[Vermillion_Hawk]

I thoroughly enjoy all the soft, squishy aspects of the human body personally. Efficacy, safety and health would be great advantages to being a metal and polymer behemoth, but I like ****ing a bit too much to ever consider it.

By the point that we have functioning neural-networked cybernetic implants capable of replacing said squishy parts, we'll also probably have some sort of ridiculous neural pleasure simulator as well.

This is probably going to see some resistence by one group or another. I can't imagine people being alright with people who put themselves into a perpetual state of nirvana and doing scant else. Judging by the number of people who would take a fake but otherwise gargantuanlly gratifying existence in that one thread this is probably going to be a major problem.

I personally think the prospect of it is disgusting myself for several reasons, but I just acknowledge it as an inevitability.

 

[Sir Saladin]

How do you know this is inevitable?

 

[Vermillion_Hawk]

Well barring the extinction of humanity, technology will probably advance to the point where direct neuron stimulation is feasible, and like all advances in technology in human history its initial usage will be either for killing people or for pornography.

 

[Bromden]

You are talking about masturbation here right?

That too.

I wouldn't mind having sex with a Cyborg.

I actually find this character sexually attractive.

Spoiler

And then she claws your back during sex.

 

[Vraelomon]

Thats exactly why hes attracted to her 

 

[Swadius 2.0]

And maybe because when they go tire slashing together, he would not have to go back home if he forgets to bring something sharp.

 

[Kharille]

Stimulating pleasure centres without drugs!  I read about it before, and heres some reading I found on google...

http://www.damninteresting.com/technology-and-the-pursuit-of-happiness/
http://wings.buffalo.edu/aru/ARUreport01.htm


Reminds me of the Syndicate computer game.  The idea that its quite normal for everyone to have a chip you can hack into to make them commit suicide.  I need to finish watching the lets play for that game sometime.....

Ah, the drug companies will rise up against it.  Imagine an alcohol fix by using electrical signals...

Hey, this might give rise to world domination!  Imagine you have a prosthetic leg, and someone hacks into it and takes control.....

 

[Austupaio]

But why would a leg have a wireless signal?

Really, in sci-fi, particularly cyberpunk, they have people hacking everything from cybernetic implants to firearms and I have trouble with that concept for that very reason.

A closed system like a prosthetic or firearm has no reason to to access or be accessed by a wireless network, so how do you hack a closed system with no wireless signal? You would establish a connection with cable or some such, seems a little less useful that way.

 

[Kharille]

Well, because they decided it would be great to implement remote diagnostics, and that by installing a new version of windows from remote would give the leg more powers to remove computer viruses and to assume other roles such as evacuating an unconscious amputee from a war zone or to take out terrorists by remote.

Who knows, maybe the US government want to create an spontaneous assassination program using amputees....

 

[Cookie Eating Huskarl]

But why would a leg have a wireless signal?

Really, in sci-fi, particularly cyberpunk, they have people hacking everything from cybernetic implants to firearms and I have trouble with that concept for that very reason.

A closed system like a prosthetic or firearm has no reason to to access or be accessed by a wireless network, so how do you hack a closed system with no wireless signal? You would establish a connection with cable or some such, seems a little less useful that way.

The trend for fiction work seems to be: if you're law enforcement/military, you come with wireless gear in your head, which unfortunately is connected to the control of your other cybernetics that in cyberpunk settings, are often the target of hackers attacking from within the network itself, meanwhile hacking the implants of a non-related entity usually is resorted by jacking programs or even the person itself into the target's cybernetic implants.

 

[Dodes]

All I see is Ghost in the Shell.

 

[Kharille]

Maybe its possible to perfect full body reconstruction, adapt the human race to the stresses of space travel....  Robocop style.  And maintain great aesthetics too....

Human evolution in the next 1000 years?  Maybe some form of terminator cyborg constructs...  and who would say it is abnormal?

 

[Mage246]

Our human slaves might, when they're not being crushed under our steel-clad armored boots.

 

[Hærger]

Dislike it. Dislike everything about it. I'm very Pagan in a non-religious way if that makes sense to you, so twisting nature like that isn't something I'd desire.