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@Wireless Joe: I find it hard to believe that someone out there does not find Ponies absolutely friggin' hilarious. If he didn't have a star already, he should get one for that comment alone.
This type of research and the positive results are the BEST real world application of science and technology. This is why so many people get into science and medicine in the first place. No more satisfying thing your career than to make real, positive impact on the world and humanity. Hats off to them.
(And hats off to Giz Tech for finally making it possible for me to log in today.)
She can look forward to a lifetime of being stopped by mall security, airport patdowns, and never being able to make microwave popcorn without pissing herself.
i wonder how far away we are from bioenhancement technology. Here we have a girl that will hopefully soon walk again...but G*g knows that the scientist and engineers wont just leave things at that. improved flexibility and improvements in capability as well.
Sadly such upgrades are a relatively long way away, but the fact that they will happen is mind boggling. Its probably best that it is far away though. We have alot of moral and ethical questions to ask before such technology is introduced to the general public.
@jrghoull: I agree with you. The ethical issue will be the main thing that would keep the bioenhancement thing in check. I think as long as they are being used for life savings methods or to enhance a person's quality of life (i.e. giving a blind person the chance to have vision) then it will probably be ok. If you are trying to enhance your senses or anything like that, you run into many moral issues. Think of how many sports players would try to get something to enhance their reflexes. It's a touchy subject.
"Think of how many sports players would try to get something to enhance their reflexes."
just start a new league where anything goes - steroids, cybernetic upgrades, whatever. keep the regular leagues as they are. like stock car racing and F1.
going even further...i assume that everyone would simply love to be better in every physical possible sense. I wouldn't mind being able to run a mile in just over 3 minutes, lift several hundred pounds with ease, be able to see in the dark, etc. the list could go on to implants that go well beyond anything human such wings.
i was about to try and post what the moral implications of that might be. but know what? i'm sure as hell not bright enough to truly begin covering that question.
I understand exactly what you are saying about the sports players...but i think that they should be allowed to use sterioids.
the point of sports is for them to be able to do their very best. if they are all hopped up on roids/implants/whatever, then relative to one another it is an even playing field.
but i digress...
tell me dude, what specific moral issues do you think will happen or could happen as a result of implants? the generalist one being if you replace virtually everything are you still human.
At what point does a human become a cyborg because if it's just whenever you have any electronic devices implanted in your body, then any person with a pacemaker is a cyborg. I believe that in the future there will be more and more devices which will complement/replace/enhance some of our human systems I don't know how far that will go. For instance, I recently read about blind people who were able to see certain shades due to the implantation of some sort of CMOS chip which was hooked up to the brain.
@Purple Monkey Dishwasher: I'd say about half of your body has to be to electronic to be considered a cyborg. I also think you need to have some conscious control over the electronic devices to be a cyborg. So things like peacemakers which work on their own wouldn't count.
@Purple Monkey Dishwasher: I can't help but be reminded of a very good Ted Talks that addresses this very topic (viewable here.) The basic premise for those of you that don't have 20 minutes to kill at work like the rest of us is that hardware is 1.0 - biological regeneration is 2.0.
Screw the pacemaker - give me the whole heart.
Edit: Typos stink, but God I love this new edit feature.
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Wow, I don't even know what to say about that one.
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unfortunately, they never recovered the puppy that preceded said vibrator.
R.I.P Spelunker The Third. In our lives for a while - In our rectums forever.
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/Still can't get them to load in FireFox, btw.
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Someone is angling for a star of his own, eh?
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(And hats off to Giz Tech for finally making it possible for me to log in today.)
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One step closer to Ghost in the Shell... when can we start uploading our brains into computers? (not that i want to... i like my brain) =]
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Sadly such upgrades are a relatively long way away, but the fact that they will happen is mind boggling. Its probably best that it is far away though. We have alot of moral and ethical questions to ask before such technology is introduced to the general public.
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"Think of how many sports players would try to get something to enhance their reflexes."
just start a new league where anything goes - steroids, cybernetic upgrades, whatever. keep the regular leagues as they are. like stock car racing and F1.
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going even further...i assume that everyone would simply love to be better in every physical possible sense. I wouldn't mind being able to run a mile in just over 3 minutes, lift several hundred pounds with ease, be able to see in the dark, etc. the list could go on to implants that go well beyond anything human such wings.
i was about to try and post what the moral implications of that might be. but know what? i'm sure as hell not bright enough to truly begin covering that question.
I understand exactly what you are saying about the sports players...but i think that they should be allowed to use sterioids.
the point of sports is for them to be able to do their very best. if they are all hopped up on roids/implants/whatever, then relative to one another it is an even playing field.
but i digress...
tell me dude, what specific moral issues do you think will happen or could happen as a result of implants? the generalist one being if you replace virtually everything are you still human.
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I imagine an x-ray of a terminator might not look too different.
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Screw the pacemaker - give me the whole heart.
Edit: Typos stink, but God I love this new edit feature.
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i've always thought about the line as being at one-third... but then again, if i had just one fully robotic arm, i would consider myself a cyborg.
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Welcome to the Hardman project.