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[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours 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.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 16 minutes ago* (last edited 14 minutes 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, and connected to your brain, it becomes even more important that the user is the one in control. I hope we can progress to that with cyborg tech too.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 8 hours ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 8 hours 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.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours 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.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 9 hours ago

Hearing colour might be cool but I'd really like to upgrade my memory storage, and rocket punch.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

hearing colour might be cool

You could just do LSD to get temporary synesthesia for that. 🤷🏻‍♂️

[-] [email protected] 1 points 52 minutes ago

Infrared and ultraviolet though 🥺

[-] [email protected] 21 points 12 hours ago

It's just living up to their part of the deal: if I'm going to get the dystopia part, I damn well better also get the cyberpunk part.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 11 hours ago
[-] [email protected] 4 points 10 hours ago

I prefer the chummer variety of future cyberpunk-y dystopia.

It has dragons!

[-] [email protected] 3 points 8 hours ago

The dragons are oligarchs.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 10 hours ago

SLOT OFF FRAGFACE

[-] [email protected] 6 points 9 hours 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

[-] [email protected] 6 points 8 hours 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.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago

why not though? i support cyborg caveman theory

[-] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago

yep, same here except i think power-source makes a slight difference to the degree of cyborginess. maybe we need a scale. maybe something like:

  1. caveman with tools, self-powered
  2. ancient person using naturalistic propulsion methods (wind, animals) for vehicles (ships, chariots) etc
  3. engine (steam, electric, gas) powered entities (vehicles, factories, aircraft)
  4. direct nervous system integration for thought-based control
  5. shared consciousness
[-] [email protected] 4 points 8 hours ago

I think generally, assistive devices like Hawking's wheelchair/speech synth wouldn't qualify one for the title of "cyborg", since they're replacing lost/damaged functionality, and didn't grant him any abilities not already available to the average person. Whereas Harbisson's modification is giving him additional abilities that he didn't previously have and are outside of the typical human experience.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Replacing lost functionality is also acceptable for a cyborg, but Hawkings simply didn't replace any organic part of himself, he used external devices. Someone with cochlear implants or a total artificial heart totally should count as a cyborg though - they have integrated mechanical body parts (well, both are partly external I guess...)
But it doesn't really make sense that just because this version of a hearing implant doesn't give you better than normal hearing, having an identical device that did would be the difference between being a cyborg or not.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 8 hours ago

I call my hernia mesh one level of dermal plating

[-] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago

hernia mesh brother! that's a great idea, I'm stealing it! my man

[-] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago

I know somebody who has implated hearing aids. If they're not a cyborg, I don't know who is.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 5 hours ago
[-] [email protected] 2 points 9 hours ago

Those are a part of the image of Hawkings but not a part of his body.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago

This is some "Terminal man" shit right here.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 8 hours ago

Wait... They did a remake of cyborg? Is Van Damme in it?

[-] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

Reading the article, it looks a lot more like The Terminal Man.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago

"upgraded", sure sure.

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