I’ve been ready to completely swap my body for a fully cybernetic shell ala Ghost in the Shell since, well, Ghost in the Shell.
Cyborg: A Documentary – new film about first upgraded human asks whether we should just because we can.
Submitted 3 months ago by 101@feddit.org to technology@lemmy.world
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Kolanaki@yiffit.net 3 months ago
JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 3 months ago
So did I. But after the new Deus Ex games and looking at the real tech scene evolve recently, I’m feeling more and more that just maybe Togusa had the right idea staying natural.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 3 months ago
Say what you will about his lack of robot body; but if had been using a normal automatic instead of an old school revolver, he could have put two trackers on the suspect.
AFC1886VCC@reddthat.com 3 months ago
Deus Ex is fantastic. Does a great job of depicting potential future problems with human augmentation.
tabular@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Hearing colour might be cool but I’d really like to upgrade my memory storage, and rocket punch.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 3 months ago
You could just do LSD to get temporary synesthesia for that. 🤷🏻♂️
tabular@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Infrared and ultraviolet though 🥺
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
It’s probably straightforward to scale the wavelengths of the visible spectrum to the wavelengths of audible tones. But the choice of scaling is subjective and any further interpretation/effects even more so.
jdeath@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Neil Harbisson is the world’s first officially recognised human cyborg
fucking bullshit. stephen hawking couldn’t function or communicate without his chair & computer. you’re gonna say that doesn’t count? then i don’t trust your judgement
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 3 months ago
I think the term cyborg is reserved for actual replacement parts or implants. Because if you count Hawking using his chair, you’d have to conclude that whatever caveman that first used a tool is the real first cyborg.
fogstormberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months ago
why not though? i support cyborg caveman theory
baduhai@sopuli.xyz 3 months ago
I know somebody who has implated hearing aids. If they’re not a cyborg, I don’t know who is.
jdeath@lemm.ee 3 months ago
100%
tabular@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Those are a part of the image of Hawkings but not a part of his body.
rollerbang@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Ask Alt Cunningham if her soul is intact…
mechoman444@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Wait… They did a remake of cyborg? Is Van Damme in it?
deathmetal27@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Reading the article, it looks a lot more like Terminal Man.
Eheran@lemmy.world 3 months ago
“upgraded”, sure sure.
deathmetal27@lemmy.world 3 months ago
This is some “Terminal man” shit right here.
LarmyOfLone@lemm.ee 3 months ago
The problem is that electronics make you dependent on a expensive, long and fragile and closed source technology. This is the opposite of liberation. Except for prosthesis of course.
Ideally we’d rather have 3D printed sensory and internal organs to augment ourselves. Things that don’t wear out but can repair themselves and grow to become truly part of our body. Augments that last a lifetime and ideally extend our lifetime.
The ultimate would be a type of biocomputer that we directly control with our brain and that can alter our body. Which is science fiction of course, but imagine meditating to reconfigure your body in some internal space, like changing your sex from male to female and then slowly growing towards that over a few months. That is far off obviously, but it marks the goal we should move towards. Not electronics or mechanics as a foreign object, but biological systems that become part of us.
tabular@lemmy.world 3 months ago
The issue exists already in wheelchairs being hard to repair and internal pacemakers incorrectly shocking people with unmodifiable software. Most electronics suck in terms of ownership but there are some which do not. With the electronics inside you, connected to your brain it becomes even more important that the user is the one in control…