Poll
Question:
Would you implant/replace your healthy fleshy bits with cybernetics?
Option 1: Jack me up!
votes: 8
Option 2: I like my fleshy bits, thank you.
votes: 0
Option 3: Only if the fleshy bit broke (i.e. therapeutic replacements).
votes: 12
Option 4: Only if the new parts are based on Jaron's parts.
votes: 1
Pretty simple question. Would you willingly replace perfectly good body parts, or implant cybernetic enhancements (lets presume they are bug/defect free) into your brain/head?
Obviously, full-limb replacements are likely ridiculous science fiction...sure, you could replace your arm with a giant metal appendage, but then the rest of your bodily support system would suffer. So we're likely talking something that would have to be more like more subtle artificial muscle/ligament enhancements, and even then, would likely require a comprehensive, full-body enhancement (to support whatever your new super-strength/speed is trying to do) And then also, of course, there is a functional computer-brain interface...i.e. sliding chips into you head to grant instant knowledge/data/vocabulary.
Would you go cyborg proactively/voluntarily? Only if you normal parts failed due to age/injury? Would you feel like you're trading in part of your natural soul by implanting a CPU into your noggin?
Depends on how many humanity points it would cost. I can't afford to go down too much in the EMP stat.
I think a datajack is just 0.5 essence points, so that might be worth it. Cybereyes too. :nerd:
Give me some perfectly good body parts and I'll think about it.
I don't recommend it right now.
Wait until nanotechnology matures and nano brain interface s become available and you can use enhancements without disrupting surgery.
Yes to enhance, but only as long as the look and feel remained human.
Sure.
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Of course, I'd have to be careful because the bloody NSA will try to hack into my head, but hey.
I already have metal plates and 17 screws in my right leg.
Quote from: MadImmortalMan on January 28, 2014, 04:20:36 PM
Sure.
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Hearing aids have come a long way.
I dunno, man. Are these American-produced UNION YES! prosthetics, or are they overseas-produced prosthetics? I have supply chain concerns.
If it is for replacement of defective body parts, then my answer is hell yes. If there is nothing wrong with my natural part, then the answer is no. The reason being I don't think cybernetics are sufficiently developed in my life time to warrant the risk. That's not a factor if said natural body part is no longer working anyway.
A penile replacement with deployable JDAM tail fins would be kinda cool.
Replace it all. Turns out the new flesh sucks.
Quote from: CountDeMoney on January 28, 2014, 07:50:33 PM
A penile replacement with deployable JDAM tail fins would be kinda cool.
For ripping open an orifice? :unsure:
Quote from: garbon on January 28, 2014, 08:43:11 PM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on January 28, 2014, 07:50:33 PM
A penile replacement with deployable JDAM tail fins would be kinda cool.
For ripping open an orifice? :unsure:
I suppose it kinda defeats the purpose of avoiding collateral damage re: circular probability error, doesn't it? :hmm:
Oops.
In 15-20 years you'll just be able to get a new limb or organ cloned, no need for mechanical replacements.
Quote from: jimmy olsen on January 29, 2014, 04:03:22 AM
In 15-20 years you'll just be able to get a new limb or organ cloned, no need for mechanical replacements.
That's an unusually pessimistic projection for you, Tim.
Way I see it, to replace a limb, we need to grow bone, muscle, flesh, nerve tissue, and arterial pathways- so we're already 60 percent there.
Mono, technology grows exponentially. You are thinking linearly. Within your lifetime we will do thinks that you now believe impossible.
The exponential pattern doesn't necessarily work in medical applications, though. We need to test shit on animals and humans, and that process cannot be accelerated in such a way.