Cybernetics

BeerWolf

If you've watched Ghost in the Shell, or played Deus Ex, you'd know what I'm talking about...


Anyways - the way the world is currently heading, and the advancement of computers and robotics... what is the likelihood of reality becoming like that of the above mentioned futures within the next 50-200 years ?


Aside from the dysfunctional Governments, the use of Cybernetics - where people with perfectly healthy limbs and organs have them replaced with 'superior' synthetic versions. Would you go ahead with such procedures, and replace what ?

jester77

I'd probably go all nuts like the lad from machine man.

wazky

So instead of going to the doctor in the future you could just unplug and re-plug yourself to fix the problem?

BeerWolf

jester77 wrote: »

I'd probably go all nuts like the lad from machine man.

You're mad if you decide to remove that manly 'tashe!

Sauve

wazky wrote: »

So instead of going to the doctor in the future you could just unplug and re-plug yourself to fix the problem?

You might need someone to help with the second bit there

BBDBB

try turning me off and then back on again and see what ye get

BeerWolf

BBDBB wrote: »

try turning me off and then back on again and see what ye get

*Glances are "SeedyVille" HMOD...*

I'm afraid to answer in case this is laced with other intentions...

wazky

Sauve wrote: »

You might need someone to help with the second bit there

Wonder if I will have to pay my man servant extra to do that?

ScumLord

BeerWolf wrote: »

Anyways - the way the world is currently heading, and the advancement of computers and robotics... what is the likelihood of reality becoming like that of the above mentioned futures within the next 50-200 years ?

Try the next 5 - 30 years. It's already happening, your products are full of nanotechnology, things like electronic eyes and ears are in the final stages of testing. What your describing is happening right now.

allibastor

Of course it will happen, Look at modern prosthetics now and what they were 25 years ago. The have legs which can run and mimic the movement and gait of the working leg.
My own father has a false left hand, lost it 45 years ago. He was recently offered a movable one which would failry well. The problem was his brain unlearn the hand movement. Otherwise he would have had a somewhat functional hand.

CatLou

Yes, please, that would be awesome!

looking_around

It's already on the way, they're testing robotic hands, and "visual" sensors for the blind(it's a vibration pad that sits on the tongue linked to a camera).

I think it's great, it will help people disabilities, almost eliminating the disability.

I don't think I'd bother cutting off my arms/legs in place for robotics though. It's not I'd have anything to gain from that. My kind of work doesn't gain any advantage from me being (physically) "super human".

AnonoBoy

BeerWolf wrote: »

If you've watched Ghost in the Shell, or played Deus Ex, you'd know what I'm talking about...

I hate these posts designed purely for fanboys that require prior knowledge.

No way man. I ain't answering.

iDave

We are the Borg.....

MJ23

2.14 Eastern Time, August 29th 1997

looking_around

AnonoBoy wrote: »

I hate these posts designed purely for fanboys that require prior knowledge.

No way man. I ain't answering.

I was thinking that too. I do wish more people would give a quick description rather than just links.

WoollyRedHat

I can just envisage the headlines of the future: "Man dies by misadventure in robot sex game that went wrong." Suddenly, Weird Science seems the norm, birth rates plummet.
and
"Reveleaed: POTUS is in fact an android."


Then there'es robot wrestling, and the "Real robot wars"


Or funny robot memes, "hey guys, my robot did the most hilarious thing today"
Or robot cat memes.

There will be lengthy debates about whether the robot dance is funny anymore when you can now see real robots dance, dance all night long.

We'll no longer have to cook, our robots will do this for us. We'll no longer have to fight and die for various idelogical reasons, the metal will be in the firing line.. that us until they turn on us.


Ah the possibilities are endless.

MadsL

MJ23 wrote: »

2.14 Eastern Time, August 29th 1997

I was just about to google that

Karl Stein

I have a phased plasma rifle in the 40 Watt range.

ScumLord

Charlie Rock wrote: »

I have a phased plasma rifle in the 40 Watt range.

I've got lightbulbs stronger than that. :pac:

Karl Stein

ScumLord wrote: »

I've got lightbulbs stronger than that. :pac:

I need your clothes, your boots and your motorcycle. :mad:

Tombi!

Right so when am I able to get my own Lucy Liu bot?

Bipolar Joe

Go watch the documentary "Transcendental Man." It's awesome.

I have day-dreamed about being a test subject for badass cybernetics experiments. I'd love to be a cyborg, or even a completely robotic being with a "Ghost." Also if Pokemon were real that would be cool.

ScumLord

Charlie Rock wrote: »

I need your clothes, your boots and your motorcycle. :mad:

I'm not St. Vincent de Paul!

Bipolar Joe

Bipolar Joe wrote: »

Go watch the documentary "Transcendental Man." It's awesome.

I have day-dreamed about being a test subject for badass cybernetics experiments. I'd love to be a cyborg, or even a completely robotic being with a "Ghost." Also if Pokemon were real that would be cool.

Think Bi-Polar Joe means

http://transcendentman.com/

wendell borton

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygN8H3kI1qE

canadianwoman

Brutal Deluxe wrote: »

Right so when am I able to get my own Lucy Liu bot?

How about a bionic woman instead?

BeerWolf

looking_around wrote: »

AnonoBoy wrote:

I hate these posts designed purely for fanboys that require prior knowledge.

No way man. I ain't answering.

I was thinking that too. I do wish more people would give a quick description rather than just links.

I've given a quick explanation, regardless if you've read it or not, that was more than sufficient... :rolleyes:

BabyGorilla

Japan.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3oH01RXZrI