dubmeup wrote:
It's not good. I don't like it at all.

It's getting to be very popular in video games too;

dubmeup wrote:
Its going to happen anyway, its natural tech progression.
Whats not natural is our economic motive behind everything. We may well have used it for thousands of years but theres nothing natural about money imho.

would any of you guys get modded in the future?

batou wrote:
Thing is, like we got at in andy's thread, the tech certainly has some very good and benevolent applications. Me ma has an artificial hip that is basically the same principle. It has upped her quality of life greatly.

The motivation of the transhumanists is not about quality of life or easing suffering though. It's about immortality, free from inconvenient bodily ails and with designer super human abilities. Akin to Iain M Banks' 'culture'.

This will be for them that can afford it. The rest of the world will remain solely as servers of these 'people'. That's all fairly well documented. In my view, also abhorrent.

Would I get a sight implant say? I really don't think so no. An artificial knee? Perhaps. It's hard to say until you're in the situation isn't it.

I couldn't bare to lose either my sight, my hearing or the use of my hands... everything else I reckon I could get by pretty much if I didn't have them. But those three I'd seriously considering having something done to if the need ever arose.

What a morbid conversation

lol
i was kind of thinking, its a good thing humans are so weak and puny. what if everyone had the strength of gorillas, or could run like a cheetah? imagine the havok.

imo, the smartest, quickest thinkers would be the rulers. if you could analyze and predict every possible outcome and weigh all the variables.. you'd be a god. you'd know the right things to do, the future of everything. even if your mate had dr. octopus arms and he wanted to fight, you'd know hey if i throw this rock in the air, theres a 89% chance based on his stance and body language that he'll lunge at me, not see it, and this rock will knock him out cold with no damage.
you can figure out what to do if it misses, with your super human brain.

that might just be stupid though. nobody could invent that.. i think. i dont know.
not like they would put anything in scum like me that can't afford their stupid tech. i guess ill have to be with the meat army. rise up, and take the sledge hammers to our robot overlords.

batou wrote:


Stop putting yourself down like that! This instant!

See you there

psketti wrote:
+1

psketti wrote:
lol yep, you can see where it leads

Before we know it we're machines travelling through space and time. We don't breathe air anymore, we don't have 'amrs and legs' as such.

Actually I think the progession is from bio to machine to energy.

Our brains are really just electrical signals firing between neurons...who's to say that a complex enough computer wouldn't become 'aware' or 'alive' so to speak?

What if then that computer figured out how to become a part of the energy in space itself?

andyh wrote: They're working on it ......

featheredfish wrote:
Ah yes, thank you, Feathered. I understand now. For a little while now payroll, human resource data, spreadsheets, word processing, et al have been moving in that direction, for a low monthly cost.

I just was not correlating 'cloud' (definition previously unknown to me) and remote business administration data storage/usage practice.

So, the super human/ape hybrid soldier fantasy of the past is not so fanciful anymore? May not actually be super human/ape hybrids, but some sort of uber soldier.

Right now, they are in the 'super human attire beta phase' which affords a soldier greater physical strength and sight and hearing, coupled with superior tech weaponry. All peripherals now but who's to say they cannot be internally equipped in the future with such equipment?

There are millions of kids walking around with these devices now, tablets and phones are the way to go. No more PC's and laptops -- you can't really take them with you EVERYWHERE you go at all times, can you? Geez... get with it already....

They don't care about the X-er generation, they've done what they can with us, and some of us are playing right along just fine too, it's just that they are fully aiming at our children who know nothing but unlimited technology and microwaved foods. All of their info on a cloud? Perfect. They are so adept at all of this stuff it's mind boggling -- what, no touch screen???

Cloud sucks. It is all about control, it's all about invading privacy to the nth because they just can't seem to do enough to keep us under wraps. They've gone ballistic with the traps in the last 20 years. It's manic. [rhetoric] Why do they need to track us so completely? Every step? What are they afraid of?[/rhetoric]

ronisron wrote:
This makes me do this a LOT.

My phone is made of bakelite and still has a rotary dial...and that's the way it's staying in my house!

Some kids may eventually see it for what it is, but they'll be a rare breed. Long as there are stuffy old luddites like me around to show them an alternative, that's all I can really do.