Do you think one day humans could be upgraded like smartphones?

sxt

When was the last upgrade? 200,000 years ago?

Slydice

Hooooo boy, wait till you get old and learn about dentures and knees and hips

TheValeyard

Body banks for replacement organs grown in labs are only a few years away

We're already existing in the Matrix.

Kidchameleon

Ray Kurtzweil thinks so. So yeah probably

TheValeyard

[Deleted User] wrote: »

We're already existing in the Matrix.

Player One got bored. That's why things are so messed up.

TeaBagMania

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6499752/

punisher5112

iPods will rule us all.

buried

The next upgrade will probably be losing the little finger. Has to happen soon like....even when you type on any sort of device you don't use it.

Piano players or musicians must still be keeping it going or something. Do they even use the little finger? I dunno

pleas advice

buried wrote: »

The next upgrade will probably be losing the little finger. Has to happen soon like....even when you type on any sort of device you don't use it.

Or drinking tea from a China cup

Mr.Crinklewood

buried wrote: »

The next upgrade will probably be losing the little finger. Has to happen soon like....even when you type on any sort of device you don't use it.

Piano players or musicians must still be keeping it going or something. Do they even use the little finger? I dunno

Mrs Crinklewood uses her little finger as a method of measurement

Ubbquittious

Kidchameleon wrote: »

Ray Kurtzweil thinks so. So yeah probably

His diet of 40 or so pills a day is after making a bit of a crackpot out of him

4068ac1elhodqr

buried wrote: »

The next upgrade will probably be losing the little finger. Has to happen soon like....even when you type on any sort of device you don't use it.

Piano players or musicians must still be keeping it going or something. Do they even use the little finger? I dunno

Practically every musican on the planet uses the little finger.
The hand/5 digits are 'design perfection' from millions of years of evolution.

Upgrades will happen, but that will be due to new technologies becoming available. Even then they will be for performing certain tasks, not daily life.

'Transhumanism' or 'H+' I think they call it (nothing to do with the other trans').

buried

Sunny Tight Punk wrote: »

Practically every musican on the planet uses the little finger.
The hand/5 digits are 'design perfection' from millions of years of evolution.

Upgrades will happen, but that will be due to new technologies becoming available. Even then they will be for performing certain tasks, not daily life.

'Transhumanism' or 'H+' I think they call it (nothing to do with the other trans').

Yeah see that what I was thinking, musicians must use the little fecker. I don't play music myself, love listening to it, but age old instruments to make the music on actual instruments, the people playing those instrumenst must use it! Its just gadges like me what just use buttons and laptops and all that don't use it at all, and I consciously know I'm not using it! Its funny

mad muffin

Yes.

TheValeyard

Once we do not end up like the Borg.

Infonovice

'Can You Live Forever' with Adam Savage, brilliant documentary ...

antodeco

If I didn't have my little finger I couldn't hold my phone up. As I type this my right little finger is at the bottom of my phone keeping it held.

Naos

Happening already, CRISPR

Lorelli!

There was an episode of The Outer Limits where everyone had a chip inserted into their arm or somewhere and they instantly knew things or could download a book into their mind within seconds. Like as if you had an advanced Google in your head.

There was a minority of people whose bodies rejected the chip so they had to learn everything themselves. They were pitied and didn't have the abilities the others had. The system was interconnected and a computer virus started messing everything up so they had to shut it down.

In the end, the people who had to learn everything organically had to teach the others everything from scratch like how to read.

It was a good episode. A bit dated now though.

buried

Lorelli! wrote: »

There was an episode of The Outer Limits where everyone had a chip inserted into their arm or somewhere and they instantly knew things or could download a book into their mind within seconds. Like as if you had an advanced Google in your head.

There was a minority of people whose bodies rejected the chip so they had to learn everything themselves. They were pitied and didn't have the abilities the others had. The system was interconnected and a computer virus started messing everything up so they had to shut it down.

In the end, the people who had to learn everything organically had to teach the others everything from scratch like how to read.

It was a good episode. A bit dated now though.

That sounds very cool. Twilight Zone style stuff.

I still buy vinyl records for the tracks I really love safe in the knowledge that if the modern digital/electronic world somehow collapsed in some sort of Mad Max situation and I survived I'd still have some mode of listening to me music without need for an electric power source to function it

AllForIt

I don't know about being upgraded but sometimes I think I could do with a software reset.

Lorelli!

buried wrote: »

That sounds very cool. Twilight Zone style stuff.

I still buy vinyl records for the tracks I really love safe in the knowledge that if the modern digital/electronic world somehow collapsed in some sort of Mad Max situation and I survived I'd still have some mode of listening to me music without need for an electric power source to function it

good thinking

Music doomsday preppin!

M.T. Cranium

I've met a few people I would like to control alt delete.

Westernyelp

Mr.Crinklewood wrote: »

Mrs Crinklewood uses her little finger as a method of measurement

And what is the good lady measuring with said finger?

Canis Lupus

buried wrote: »

The next upgrade will probably be losing the little finger. Has to happen soon like....even when you type on any sort of device you don't use it.

Piano players or musicians must still be keeping it going or something. Do they even use the little finger? I dunno

Clearly not a gamer.

Giveaway

Species upgrades are a very interesting stellaris mechanic

punisher5112

They will be able to upload via Bluetooth....

Spleerbun

buried wrote: »

The next upgrade will probably be losing the little finger. Has to happen soon like....even when you type on any sort of device you don't use it.

Yet another thing the Simpsons predicted!!

Mr. teddywinkles

antodeco wrote: »

If I didn't have my little finger I couldn't hold my phone up. As I type this my right little finger is at the bottom of my phone keeping it held.

I'd say losing your little toe more likely in evolution end of things

Franz Von Peppercorn

buried wrote: »

The next upgrade will probably be losing the little finger. Has to happen soon like....even when you type on any sort of device you don't use it.

Piano players or musicians must still be keeping it going or something. Do they even use the little finger? I dunno

Not sure if serious....

But if so that’s not how evolution works. Not that humans are evolving at the moment.

Franz Von Peppercorn

Naos wrote: »

Happening already, CRISPR

The crispr technolgy is interesting. But we don’t really know enough about the genome.

Ariadne

If you could upgrade me to a less mucus-y version of myself that would be great thanks.

professore

I'm counting on it.