However, on that note, it'd seem like those who cannot afford/refuse to 'upgrade' (those not of the majority) will immediately be thrown out of the loop. Like an Anomie scenario (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anomie). Just imagine the drastic implications if the majority of society is now re-tooling their bodies and sensory input, and now you have a league of parkour runners that communicate almost instantaneously through cerebral messaging, with replaceable limbs, enhanced vision and whatnot- that have daily quarrels with those who have become walking calculators, versus the everyday person who cannot run faster than 16 MPH. In terms of Ghost in the Shell, it'd sound like a lot of people would love to hack other people... which I will get to later.
Another thing that bugs me is, how that would affect the individuals or hive mind who have become one with the fairly-folded unreliable hardware we call brains (that supposedly learn most aspects of connectivity through repetition and memory) that work in tandem with silicon/quantum prosthetic attached to it... that are able to force each assumption, observation and belief to pay rent without error... using instantaneous hard logic and pre-determined values that can self-correct at any time? God mode? What kind of networks are we interfacing with, if we have
cyberbrains (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_in_the_Shell)?
Basically, what happens to someone who can harness the full potential of a human brain, work with/shape the bubbles that sometimes occur, and then add immense computing power and speed to that said brain, plus a sea of information and constant corrections and iterations of perception on the fly? What happens when you multiply that by a small community, and then have them interact with powers-over-powers of computing... power? Do they just progressively become the Borg, like Xrain said?
A whole defrag of self-identity, because everyone is suddenly closer to one another, and suddenly 3/4ths of the globe is in-sync?
Though, if we all re-tool ourselves, doesn't that open up to better possibilities? Being optimistic, if one were their own walking laboratory, they could very well work with 700 other walking laboratories and achieve some neato things. Maybe. If you were the calculator in your head (and not just a brain that remembers how to calculate but has potential to forget), would it mean that the sum work of 500 people doing a plethora of arithmetic towards infrastructures in society could very well improve them at an exponential rate? What about architecture? What about changing the human languages such that they were far better at describing qualia? Could you see everything that I saw, as in, if I told you how blue the sky was, you could see my blue without me having to connect directly to your head?
Could we go from making fossil fuel power super efficient, to eradicating the need to burn "non-processed" fossil fuels, to some strange yet fitting/practical application of fossil fuels while using new technologies currently not yet applied en masse (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_depolymerization) just by working in tandem with our new shiny tools, and new cybernetic grounds to explore?
By non-processed, I mean to imply that the majority of things found to be fossil fuels like coal or oil are found in stores or quarries. We don't make them, but we get them pre-made by the environment and dying things. If we are to do Thermal Depolymerization to the point where much of the things considered unusable or un-convertable become valid and eligible, then we are taking the plastics and such that we have processed, and changing their states back to crude oil or other oils... thus, in the sense, processed fuels. Almost renewable, to an extent. Then again implying that we can take Thermal Depolymerization to that level could suggest that we can turn dirt into gold by directly modifying the atomic structure of covalent compounds, ionic bonds (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_transmutation), or even just elements.
Else, how safe is perfected cybernetics? I've never seen it, so I can't say. But in my mind, if it's perfect then it shouldn't have security flaws. Or general flaws. Which then concerns me, because if we are talking about the human body and the human brain and not any other body or brain, then current examples in society and biology have shown us just how easy it is to alter the perception of the world around an individual, and how easy it is to reprogram or damage the brain. Implying that this technology is perfect must also mean that once it becomes us, our bodies and possibly our minds (barring whether or not we still talk in 1st person) will then have to become infallible as well. This would also mean that individuals who became deviants from whatever the technological singularity was, for whatever reason, would be unstoppable. They'd be perfect. Like everyone else... does perfect cancel out perfect? Does the fact that they are now perfect (in the view of the majority who are perfect) stop them from being a one-man army in an orphanage of "Naturals"?
I don't know. Maybe it's a moot point, because I don't believe that within a decade individuals who'd be considered malicious would have access to the holy grail of self-modification, and by the time they would have the potential to manifest from the pool of consciousness or integration of human-likeness, Humanity might be something akin to a living computer or UFAI such that it caters to itself, and then would probably have some set of rules or utilities, maybe even protocols that would prevent such a personality or entity from becoming real.
Kind of like the Borg. But, that's an ideal scenario in my mind. Anyone could potentially get their hands on tools for the self, even someone who wants to eradicate all life on Earth and commandeer all of our scary weapons against us.
I don't know what else to touch on that question per whatever I think I know. I also don't know whether to categorize a human brain potentially grown from birth with cybernetics as a
cyborg or an
android with human stepping stones... or an
AI loaded up into a human platform, or... Ack.