Poll: Would you be a cyborg?
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I would get all the physical improvements, but they will NOT touch my brain, otherwise, I will come at them like a breezeblock of pain!
No, I don't think anyone will ever go cyborg by choice. Humans freak out if they meet someone with a hairstyle they don't like, imagine if they meet someone with Terminator arms.
The real success for that kind of tech lies in prosthetics or if external upgrades (ie, ones you can take of without their leaving any permanent mark) become viable. Something that improved your abilities, thn left you a normal human being again when you took it off, would be very succesful.
The real success for that kind of tech lies in prosthetics or if external upgrades (ie, ones you can take of without their leaving any permanent mark) become viable. Something that improved your abilities, thn left you a normal human being again when you took it off, would be very succesful.
We will add your cultural and technological distinctiveness to our own. Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated.
Really, though, when it comes to Star Trek-inspired man-machines, I would MUCH rather be Data than Borg (with the possible exception of Hugh). I'm already antisocial enough, a hive mind would be quite thoroughly unacceptable.
Really, though, when it comes to Star Trek-inspired man-machines, I would MUCH rather be Data than Borg (with the possible exception of Hugh). I'm already antisocial enough, a hive mind would be quite thoroughly unacceptable.
People have been using tools and technology to give them an advantage since the day we figured stick + your head=I win. And if you are afraid of being manipulated well I am sorry to say that you have been manipulated your whole life. Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy, yellow cake, the list goes on and on. Here's a fun game to play on people you know. Go with them to mall and casually talk about the time they got lost in a mall just like this one. Throw in details like how very young they were and so very scared by all the people in a rush because of the holidays. Eventually they will remember and start forming memories of the day on their own and if you are good they may even cry. Now congratulate yourself because you just planted a traumatic false memory into someone head. If you tell them they'll probably never ask you to babysit or something equally annoying because they will never ever trust you and perhaps talk to you either. I consider that a bonus.
Cops and DA's tend to do that to their witnesses and victims to make sure they give a good, convincing testimony at trial. I love manipulating people Palpatine style.
Cops and DA's tend to do that to their witnesses and victims to make sure they give a good, convincing testimony at trial. I love manipulating people Palpatine style.
I always wonder why hiveminds are so logical and sedate. I'd think that if you wired a bunch of people together, you'd get something very impulsive, excitable, and ADHD.SimuLord said:
Robotic arms and legs would be great, but I really just want robotic eyes that have Night Vision and can see in Infrared.
I'd gladly have some minor things like improved sight/hearing, better organs and so on, but my limbs? Only if it was necessary, and by necessary I mean losing my original ones in an accident or to a disease.
I'd propably get a lot more accepting as an elderly person with my body starting to fail, but I'd wish to keep my original body as long as possible.
I'd propably get a lot more accepting as an elderly person with my body starting to fail, but I'd wish to keep my original body as long as possible.
I would maintain my body for as long as possible, then as systems begin to fail, have them replaced one at a time.
They don't call it "the madness of crowds" for nothing, although I suppose it's not too much of a stretch to presume that some kind of computer program rather than something as fragile as a human psyche is doing the processing, so maybe the Borg are just less likely to go bonkers as a result of their programming. Plus, a couple of episodes of Voyager revealed that there's a Borg Queen---as first seen in Star Trek: First Contact---who can terminate remotely any Borg network connection that's not falling into line like the sysadmin from hell.ThrobbingEgo said:
Still, I'd rather be Data, no matter how much of a badass Locutus was (but really, no matter what you transform Picard into, it's gonna be badass by default. Chuck Norris sees five lights.)