I don’t have a problem with cybernetic augmentation, I mostly would have a problem with the state of technology companies. I likely wouldn’t choose to get any because I would not be able to trust them. However, if I could get any sorta (relatively) basic augmentation, it would be built in headphones. Like to just be able to “hear” music and podcasts and audiobooks. My focus wouldn’t even be upgraded hearing or anything.
So do y’all have any similar quality of life augmentations you would want?
Not in order but I would like to have Bionic sight Bionic hearing Bionic joints Bionic smell Bionic sleep regulator Bionic metabolism regulator and a bionic muscle regulator
Volume control for the ears, with equalizer, decibel normalizer, and active noise cancelling.
Active noise cancelling for this fucking tinnitus would be a godsend
I also have some trust issues. I’d rather not have spyware built into me.
That said if I could magically wave those problems away, I wouldn’t say no to improved senses. Eyes that can see any wavelength from radio to x-rays, with different filters for wavelength and polarization available. Same for ears too.
I have actually considered(but not super seriously) getting a magnet implant so I could detect magnetic fields and current flowing in wires, what do you think the limit of that would be if you took it to an extreme?
Mental augmentations are a bit scarier. For multiple reasons.
Bionic ears, mine are shit.
Hell yes. Decades of tinnitus gone? Sign me up.
Give me mechanical tentacles like doc ock. I wouldn’t want to replace anything.
So you want the power of the sun in the palm of your hand as well huh
I would want a body pocket of at least 100 cm³, some volume controler for ears, and (personnal interest) a fully engineerable right eye
A brain/computer interface. But like you say, depending on the state of tech companies maybe only as an input (I can manipulate computers without allowing them to send a signal of any kind to me).
It’d just be for stuff like mentally dictating note taking, being able to “Google” my thoughts (probably best to send the output to my phone rather than directly into my brain)
A great SciFi book series with this is Old Man’s War. I love the brain pal concept in it.
“Hey asshole!” Love it.
Iove technology, so I was shocked at that part that someone would name their computer like that. But the character is 75 years old, so it makes sense.
Oh awesome. I’ve never heard of it, I’ll have to check it out
This would be mine too. Mainly so I can feel like I’m sending messages telepathically.
rg $face memories/ | jq .nameI want this plus perfect memory recall, imagine reading or watching something once and being able to remember it forever and bring that memory back whenever you want
a pair of working wings like a bat, a prehensile tail like a monkey that is strong enough to pick stuff up equally as my arms can, skin like a chameleon that can transition to the color and texture (visually) of my surroundings and regenerative cells like those immortal octopuses.
that’s just for regular life, my ultimate fantasy version would have all that but also an improved ass, that sits in an office chair more comfortably so i can write TPS reports more efficiently and with better clarity.
throws Shadowrun 2 street samurai catalog on table
This.
Something like an eidetic memory chip would be splendid.
Full cyborgisation. Just not one made by any capitalist entity.
I used to think a future with cyborgs would be pretty cool but personally, I’m not so hot on the idea anymore. The problem is that you would be beholden to whichever corporation or government manufactures and pays for parts. And who is to say that the support for whichever product that you’ve surgically implanted will be for life, and that you won’t end up with useless landfill electronics sewed up inside of you.
Personally I think that if AI was ever made with altruistic purposes, that could fill the role of things like complex calculations and extra memory or a log. And good Augmented Reality could fill the role of interacting directly with entertainment and blocking out the outside world. And maybe one day there would be effective ways of interacting directly with computers through electrodes or even wirelessly. Although who knows how our privacy would be invaded then. There could be literal thought police in that case.
The problem is that the tech will always come from someone else. Imagine integrating this kind of tech into your life on such a deep level and then the person in charge of over seeing and maintaining this tech turns out to be an authoritarian nazi.
You mean like our real-life situation with Neuralink and the new Nazi called Elon Musk?
A cortical stack that allows me to upload my brain to a computer, and make back ups or forks of myself.
Maybe store project-related stuff in a subdirectory of the project repo, and make everyone on the team get that so I can finally read the other guy’s code.
A hearing implant that works by audio mixing rather than just raising volume. I’m not deaf, but I have trouble filtering out background noise.
auditory processing disorder? I suspect I have that too.
Yeah I think I either have been officially diagnosed with it as a kid or suspected of having it.
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