Poll: Would you be a cyborg?

[ThrobbingEgo]

Inspired by this video: http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/aimee_mullins_prosthetic_aesthetics.html

And the end of this video: http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/pattie_maes_demos_the_sixth_sense.html

When the technology for replacement limbs surpasses what we're born with, would you "upgrade" your human limbs with robotic implants? Would you install a chip in your brain, for wireless internet access perhaps; maybe just expand your memory; finally say goodbye to that plasma screen TV? How far would you go in terms of human parts replacement, and why?

 

[aww yea]

nowhere, somethings gonna go wrong down the line

make something failproof means its just harder to fix when it breaks...

 

[Fbuh]

I would definitely get memory implants, as well as cybernetic limbs. I would keep my actual brain, though.

 

[Iskenator67]

Of course. I'd love to rule the world as a robot.

 

[Evilbunny]

I think artificial limbs would be nice, but the brain is a more delicate organ so I'd like them to leave that alone. I'm too afraid of them breaking and me losing my mind.

 

[Erana]

It depends on how well-proven and what types of mental implants, but I need to feel. I'm an artist.

Anyway, isn't that what exoskeletons are for?

 

[goatzilla8463]

could i get robotic erections?

 

[solidstatemind]

Look at my user name. Do you even have to ask?

 

[gigastrike]

I would as long as the neural implants don't allow them to control me/read my thoughts and the limbs aren't too heavy. I guess God might hate me for it, though.

 

[ThrobbingEgo]

nowhere, somethings gonna go wrong down the line

make something failproof means its just harder to fix when it breaks...

Natural human beings have a 100% failure rate. Just saying.

 

[Skeleon]

I'd be okay with some upgrades, i.e. a cybernetic eye or enhanced memory...
Some inner organs, too, like an extra heart or detoxifying liver.
But no internet access or anything else that'd connect me to a network. Networks are always dangerous access points for hackers and the like...
I also wouldn't want to be obviously a cyborg (from the outside), so no stuff like entire limbs.

 

[lleihsad]

HELL. YES.

 

[Bigsmith]

I would have a single robot power arm as well as memory implants.

I guess God might hate me for it, though.

God, what god?

 

[ThrobbingEgo]

But no internet access or anything else that'd connect me to a network. Networks are always dangerous access points for hackers and the like...

I can see it now: Hipsters saying, "Get a brainmac."

 

[Player 2]

I would replace my finger with a swiss army knife if it was cut off, but I wouldn't mess about implanting wires and stuff because thats bound to end badly.

 

[The Rockerfly]

I would but as long as my cyborg pieces remain away from access to the internet, due to hackers, viruses and anything else
Oh and because mechanics is easy to get a degree in then medicine so there would be more people to fix me up when I break
Oh and it would be just kick arse too

 

[TyTyofChaos]

When the technology comes out to actually replace and surpass actual human limbs (full metal alchemist Edward Elrich sp.? i know his arent robotic per-se but you catch my drift) I will be the first to sign up. The ability to jump un-feasable heights and just the raw power and badassery that that would imbue would be so amazing. Id be iffy on brain implants though, mind control and all that but i would probably get that too for the added lightning quick reaction time and whatnot.

So to sum it up it has been a dream of mine to become a cyborg!!!

 

[DrunkenKitty]

YES.

Also there's a cool looking book that talks about cyborgs and where technology is going in that area and what we can expect to see in a realistic timeline. Towards the end of the book, he makes the case that with things like hearing aids, contact lenses and some other devices, we are, in essence, already cyborgs.

 

[roastbeefy]

I'd make it so I could turn one arm into a chainsaw and the other into a gatling gun, and having Wikipedia in my head would be cool too.

 

[Agent Larkin]

F*** yes.