The next Human Hardware/Software update?

sxt

I don't think there has been an update in the last 100,000 years?

Like the ability to update smartphones , I think that it is inevitable that humans will be updated into better functioning and capable machines. Humans and technology will become more and more integrated. There might be a time when minds can be uploaded to Avatars? We maybe able to cure the diseases of old age? Merge our biological bodies with improved artificial parts?

I would like to be able to download every language and the knowledge of every musical instrument to my mind . I would like to have a body that detects a problem , similar to when a car light goes off when there is a problem.

What updates would you like to see?

donvito99

Boob guns.

Panthro

The ability to select what memories you want to keep/get rid of would be sweet.
Like in that film "Eternal Sunshine of a spotless mind"

Of course, alcomohol does do it to a certain degree I guess!:pac:

Praetorian Saighdiuir

Small aestethically pleasing gills for shallow diving.

Regenerating limbs.

For Forks Sake

donvito99 wrote: »

Boob guns.

third boob.

Bipolar Joe

Pretty much everything in Ghost in the Shell. If it's just evolution you're talking about, teeth that don't fall out or get all fucked up. Toothcare is so expensive .

Ruu

Something like "the beast" in the Father Ted episode with Chris the sheep would be good, minus the fear of stamps of course.

sxt

Bipolar Joe wrote: »

Pretty much everything in Ghost in the Shell. If it's just evolution you're talking about, teeth that don't fall out or get all fucked up. Toothcare is so expensive .

Definitely not talking about evolution. Evolution stills thinks we are all living in an Ice age where were are vunerable to being attacked by wild animals. Will update post.

Czarcasm

I was going to say regenerative cells, but then that'd mean immortality. I'd like to think my time was limited, that way I'm more motivated to make the most of it.

I'm going to go with bionic body parts. I know they exist already, but I'd like to see them refined to a point where it'd be impossible to tell the difference between them and real body parts.

I don't think we'll ever be able to design an artificial brain though.

shedweller

A wee bit of common sense. The ability to go through life without even thinking of killing a person.
I could go on, but i need sleep.

syklops

shedweller wrote: »

A wee bit of common sense. The ability to go through life without even thinking of killing a person.
I could go on, but i need sleep.

Not needing sleep!

Such an uber-waste of time.

Gorilla Rising

I'd like to see an update with the removal of certain viruses such as that trojan skanger virus that's going around breaking into people's server rooms etc.

Praetorian Saighdiuir

Maybe something that eradicates those little annoyances, like:

Something that stops me catching my foreskin in my zip......

Stops me bashing my toe off the corner of something......

Stops me from burning my tongue on the first bite of a meal and ruining it......

Stops me sticking a cotton bud too far into my ear....

etc etc

Zomg Okay

syklops wrote: »

Not needing sleep!

Such an uber-waste of time.

But... but I like sleeping.

shedweller

Zomg Okay wrote: »

But... but I like sleeping.

I do too, but imagine the possibilities if we didn't need sleep!

Corkfeen

Praetorian Saighdiuir wrote: »

Something that stops me catching my foreskin in my zip......

Underwear?

Praetorian Saighdiuir

Corkfeen wrote: »

Underwear?

Pffft, underwear is for kids!

My point is mainly, something in built in our brain to prevent those stupid, small, silly crap from happenning.

Rayne Wooney

The next software update I'd like to see is the deletion of all the religion files in the minds of everyone.

It'll happen eventually.

nocoverart

A Human version of Sky + would be great! just for me, and me alone.

Dempsey

shedweller wrote: »

I do too, but imagine the possibilities if we didn't need sleep!

youd work longer hours Is all

Bipolar Joe

sxt wrote: »

Definitely not talking about evolution. Evolution stills thinks we are all living in an Ice age where were are vunerable to being attacked by wild animals. Will update post.

OK, then after reading the update, I'll still go with everything in Ghost in the Shell. I desperately want that to be real. If life was Pokemon mixed with Ghost in the Shell, I would be the happiest sentient being alive.

I recommend watching Transcendent Man, for anyone wondering about human upgrades around right now. It's awesome. Plug me in!

Wacker The Attacker

For Forks Sake wrote: »

third boob.

Adjustable boobs

Adyx

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lm38Ojh61lY

Wibbs

sxt wrote: »

Definitely not talking about evolution. Evolution stills thinks we are all living in an Ice age where were are vunerable to being attacked by wild animals. Will update post.

Not quite. Genetic changes/"upgrades" have accelerated markedly in humans in the last 12000 years, since the advent of farming pretty much. Ability to digest various foods for a start, but others too. We've certainly changed in the last 100,000 years. We've become much less robust, have smaller teeth and skulls and the like. Plus culturally we're upgrading all the time.

J_E

Panthro wrote: »

The ability to select what memories you want to keep/get rid of would be sweet.
Like in that film "Eternal Sunshine of a spotless mind"

On a serious note, would you really want that? If I knew there was something I had purposely made myself forget I would be driven crazy trying to find out what it was. Sometimes even bad memories are important to remember in being a better person.

Capt'n Midnight

We didn't upgrade the OS we just installed third party apps such as language, culture, technology, medicine and other cool stuff.

Unfortunately not everyone keeps their antivirus up to date, so yes we got rid of smallpox, but Europe still has measles thanks to one fraudulent doctor.


Some very visible changes in our skeletons recently
how-forks-gave-us-overbites-and-pots-saved-the-toothless


Though we have worse teeth than people from the middle ages.

Capt'n Midnight

Wibbs wrote: »

Not quite. Genetic changes/"upgrades" have accelerated markedly in humans in the last 12000 years, since the advent of farming pretty much. Ability to digest various foods for a start,

How much truth is there in the story that the reason so many people west of the Shannon have rednecks is that Cromwell forced people to move into areas they weren't genetically adapted to ?

(yes I know the "to hell or to Connaught" was overstated.)

Prodigious

Bionic eyes for the blind and visually impaired would be some job.

Capt'n Midnight

Prodigious wrote: »

Bionic eyes for the blind and visually impaired would be some job.

World’s first bionic eye approved by FDA, aims to treat blindness

At some point there, we left the present and entered the future

Example http://xkcd.com/652/

shopaholic01

Nerves that have the ability to regenerate.

My worst nightmare would be paralysis from the neck down.

Mr. CooL ICE

The ability to crap out through your fingers. Think of all the uses

admiralofthefleet

3 diddys like in total recall

1ZRed

Praetorian Saighdiuir wrote: »

Pffft, underwear is for kids!

Circumcision?

Praetorian Saighdiuir

1ZRed wrote: »

Circumcision?

Nah..........:(

1ZRed

Praetorian Saighdiuir wrote: »

Nah..........:(

Keep at the zip, I'm sure you'll get there in the end :P

entropi

Zomg Okay wrote: »

But... but I like sleeping.

That's where I'm a pirate!

shopaholic01

1ZRed wrote: »

Keep at the zip, I'm sure you'll get there in the end :P

Button fly or a kilt.

steddyeddy

Bio engineering is moving 3-5 times faster than Moores law. We can now clone extinct animals. I think that's pretty amazing.

mikehammer67

hornier women

AdolfHipster

The ability to run backwards at great speeds.

mikehammer67

AdolfHipster wrote: »

The ability to run backwards at great speeds.

youd need

AdolfHipster wrote: »

The ability to run backwards at great speeds.

youd need 'eyes in the back of your head'