How to Build a Bionic Man

[Jhon]

http://www.channel4.com/info/press/programme-information/how-to-build-a-bionic-man

HOLY SHIT. In 20 years we are going to see super-humans flying around at this rate @-@

[Astropilot]

I want my military augmentations.

[Deathie]

I want my military augmentations.

I never asked for this.

[·UηİŦ··]

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It is a double-edged sword. It's nice to see those in dire need of help/beyond disrepair get that repair they so desperately need.

For those with damaged senses to actually be able to re-integrate into society and observe the world as the majority does, if not even a little better.

But I mean, by the time it happens the question 'What measure is a Human Being?" won't even matter; the blacks and whites of said moral question will be so blurred that they make a fine homogenous blob. And then you will have the healthy augmenting themselves...

And then you'll have another issue; all natural or Adam Jensen? Are those in government/power with implants and neural links and lasers coming out of their face going to view those without super-prosthesis inferior and obsolete? A block in the pathway of synthesis, in the pathway of destined evolution? A nuisance? A pest?

Is it going to be like Terminator? Or is there peaceful assimilation?


And there are so many other issues, apart from that 'what if' of the possible future. How far does the prosthesis intend to go? Will we reject it? How easy is it to then hijack control of someone maliciously? How much of you then becomes you and not a platform for someone or something else?

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I don't ever want someone to look into my eyes and see Coca-Cola flash every 20 seconds.

I don't ever want to sound like One Direction when I tell someone I love them.

I don't ever want to have children and have them give me a hug, only for them to hear low low prices from Wal-Mart.

That will not do.

Does going from full-on biological to synthetic create more weaknesses or complications within daily life than it eliminates?
I'd hate to be standing near a giant magnet and then my forearm decides to mount itself from my shoulder and break my rib cage before snapping itself in two from jerky twitching... or even the scrambled data from the arm suddenly working its way back into my nervous system and stopping my heart.

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Think about it. People as a majority just love self-gratification. It is a nice thing. Now imagine the implants helping the starving and the poor and the disabled. We all now have it good, that's fine and dandy... but then we realize we can think 100000000x faster than we could ever move. We can lift something a crane couldn't even begin to.

You could run as fast as a bullet train.

Vanity. Perfection.

Where in the good name of humanity would we stop?

Never. We like new shiny things. When we brave the waters and nothing seems wrong, we always tend to come back and have a pool party knowing we won't get eaten by a predator.

I guess I'm just asking myself what it is we as people are right now, and what might happen to me and whatever becomes of me or the people around me later on.
Maybe it's inevitable; we're destined to become a giant hivemind of grey goop aligning itself to stand on two legs communicating at light speed before just floating around on jets of electromagnetism, briefly wondering what "Tomato Soup" was before calculating vectors and sending 36 Terraflops of LOL to another blob.

I don't know. Every now and then I do consider greatly what we'd be doing when we take that leap of faith, using self-adjusting VTOL jet boots.

[Cariad†]

I heard a rumor that the U.S. was going to attempt to build a Death Star satellite as a defense station. I honestly wouldn't be surprised if they do.

[ursus]

I heard a rumor that the U.S. was going to attempt to build a Death Star satellite as a defense station. I honestly wouldn't be surprised if they do.

that was a joke petition on whitehouse.gov that actually got 25,000 signatures

their response was funny

[Jhon]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

It is a double-edged sword. It's nice to see those in dire need of help/beyond disrepair get that repair they so desperately need.

For those with damaged senses to actually be able to re-integrate into society and observe the world as the majority does, if not even a little better.

But I mean, by the time it happens the question 'What measure is a Human Being?" won't even matter; the blacks and whites of said moral question will be so blurred that they make a fine homogenous blob. And then you will have the healthy augmenting themselves...

And then you'll have another issue; all natural or Adam Jensen? Are those in government/power with implants and neural links and lasers coming out of their face going to view those without super-prosthesis inferior and obsolete? A block in the pathway of synthesis, in the pathway of destined evolution? A nuisance? A pest?

Is it going to be like Terminator? Or is there peaceful assimilation?


And there are so many other issues, apart from that 'what if' of the possible future. How far does the prosthesis intend to go? Will we reject it? How easy is it to then hijack control of someone maliciously? How much of you then becomes you and not a platform for someone or something else?

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

I don't ever want someone to look into my eyes and see Coca-Cola flash every 20 seconds.

I don't ever want to sound like One Direction when I tell someone I love them.

I don't ever want to have children and have them give me a hug, only for them to hear low low prices from Wal-Mart.

That will not do.

Does going from full-on biological to synthetic create more weaknesses or complications within daily life than it eliminates?
I'd hate to be standing near a giant magnet and then my forearm decides to mount itself from my shoulder and break my rib cage before snapping itself in two from jerky twitching... or even the scrambled data from the arm suddenly working its way back into my nervous system and stopping my heart.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Think about it. People as a majority just love self-gratification. It is a nice thing. Now imagine the implants helping the starving and the poor and the disabled. We all now have it good, that's fine and dandy... but then we realize we can think 100000000x faster than we could ever move. We can lift something a crane couldn't even begin to.

You could run as fast as a bullet train.

Vanity. Perfection.

Where in the good name of humanity would we stop?

Never. We like new shiny things. When we brave the waters and nothing seems wrong, we always tend to come back and have a pool party knowing we won't get eaten by a predator.

I guess I'm just asking myself what it is we as people are right now, and what might happen to me and whatever becomes of me or the people around me later on.
Maybe it's inevitable; we're destined to become a giant hivemind of grey goop aligning itself to stand on two legs communicating at light speed before just floating around on jets of electromagnetism, briefly wondering what "Tomato Soup" was before calculating vectors and sending 36 Terraflops of LOL to another blob.

I don't know. Every now and then I do consider greatly what we'd be doing when we take that leap of faith, using self-adjusting VTOL jet boots.

I think it's great that also the healthy will augment themselves, even though it might cause a lot of problems, that's evolution and I think it's better than staying the way we are now. It's kind of the same like when the first atom bomb was created.
About the hi-jacking part, the minute we fully understand how the brain works we can hi-jack our current biological body. Even now you can more-or-less.
And the part with the magnet, that can be solved with materials that magnets don't affect. Scientists have already found and invented a material which works like a muscle fiber, but is about 1,000 times stronger (pretty sure it was 1,000).
I'm hoping that when we'll augment our brains we will uncover the secrets of the universe a lot faster and that with us being smarter we might behave, live according to our new bodies.

The dangerous part will be when there will only be a very small number of augmented people / cyborgs, because the thought of them being one of the very few "superhumans", they might go and take bad advantage of it.