Weekend Open Forum: Would you accept Deux Ex-like augmentations?

[captaincranky]

Death improves savage human nature, not extended life. Death 'sobers' everyone up a little bit. If people could live around a usually fatal event, humanity would just hack away at each other without much thought. (has anyone read the inheritence cycle? the soldiers that dont feel pain and will fight until decapitated or no blood left? they laughed and struck even as their legs were both gone. I think its a pretty fair example...).

Or, you could go to work for the government as, "The Six Million Dollar Man": In fact, they might just make TV show about your adventures in do-gooding: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Six_Million_Dollar_Man Sadly, because today's currency is really only "virtual money", you might want to add a couple of zeroes to that number. You know, government contracts, cost overruns, inflation, and higher profit margins for private equity monopolies.. Oh, and look forward to being "Made in China". They'll probably have a black ops wing in their new Hummer factory.....

As far as inheritance from generation to generation, I think I read where technological information is passed along, but moral awareness has to be relearned. The net result is after a few centuries, what you get.....(wait for it)......, is a pack of chimpanzees armed with thermonuclear weapons. Now play nice kids....

And what the hell, while we're at it, why not add a co-processor somewhere in the middle of the fully armored chest cavity, with optical sensors all over the uniform. That way, decapitation would only be a minor setback, certainly not a reason to give up the fight....!

 

[RmandsDC]

Kids non-cyborgs being bullied at school.... Later when everyone's a cyborg, it's just cool to be 100% human, being rebel, Fking the system, video game style.

 

[Moxiy]

On wearable tech id get myself an iron man suit then have it incoporated with thor-like abilities so I could be able to call lightning on guys

 

[captaincranky]

On wearable tech id get myself an iron man suit then have it incoporated with thor-like abilities so I could be able to call lightning on guys

And this from someone with a wired mouse as an avatar?

 

[Moxiy]

"On wearable tech id get myself an iron man
suit then have it incoporated with thor-like
abilities so I could be able to call lightning on
guys
And this from someone with a wired mouse as
an avatar?"

what does the avatar got to do with comment??

 

[oldikes]

Its captaincranky, what do you expect?

 

[dividebyzero]

Or, you could go to work for the government as, "The Six Million Dollar Man": In fact, they might just make TV show about your adventures in do-gooding: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Six_Million_Dollar_Man Sadly, because today's currency is really only "virtual money", you might want to add a couple of zeroes to that number. You know, government contracts, cost overruns, inflation, and higher profit margins for private equity monopolies.. Oh, and look forward to being "Made in China". They'll probably have a black ops wing in their new Hummer factory.....

Even back in the Seventies I think you'll find that the private sector could have (re)built Steve Austin for a whole lot less than $6m. Studies in slow-motion running, synthesiser effects, and Styrofoam props might have required a huge amount of lead-in time and a whole raft of proposals, committee's, and sub-committees.
These days it might be more like the "The Ten Million Bitcoin Person". The test subjects picked via national audience from an online/pay TV talent show. Hardware made by Foxconn, with the software divided between Linux (cheaper option, limbs likely not to coordinate correctly, estimated time to market 37.456 years), and Windows ( "the subject has stopped working...windows is checking for a solution to the problem...Windows will close down the subject and notify you if a solution is available..."). The Apple funded project of course will be left in a bar, unresponsive due to lack of WiFi signal, and bearing an uncanny resemblance to this man.

 

[veLa]

I'd rather just have some sort of removable body suit or set of devices that has the same functions as these said body augmentation. That way I'd have those cool abilities without having to sacrifice my humanity.

 

[Moxiy]

Its captaincranky, what do you expect?

hahah now iv got it.

 

[captaincranky]

On wearable tech id get myself an iron man

suit then have it incoporated with thor-like

abilities so I could be able to call lightning on

guy.

And this from someone with a wired mouse as an avatar?

what does the avatar got to do with comment??

Surely you'll concede to my point which is, "a wired mouse is the technological antithesis of the 'ironman' suit". Which I saw as an "irony", which then becomes an pun.

Anyway good luck with that. As you 'streak' though the night sky, remember me fondly. You will be able to think of yourself as 'iconic', while mere ground based life forms such as myself, will think of you as 'ironic'......(oh, and wait for it)....."Welcome to Techspot"....

 

[captaincranky]

Even back in the Seventies I think you'll find that the private sector could have (re)built Steve Austin for a whole lot less than $6m. Studies in slow-motion running, synthesiser effects, and Styrofoam props might have required a huge amount of lead-in time and a whole raft of proposals, committee's, and sub-committees.

I knoooow! When those syths were first introduced, only a rock star could afford them. And only the biggest bands at that.

These days it might be more like the "The Ten Million Bitcoin Person". The test subjects picked via national audience from an online/pay TV talent show. Hardware made by Foxconn, with the software divided between Linux (cheaper option, limbs likely not to coordinate correctly, estimated time to market 37.456 years), and Windows ( "the subject has stopped working...windows is checking for a solution to the problem...Windows will close down the subject and notify you if a solution is available...").

Do you think they should use the "hourglass" icons in the eyes during reboot, or the little blue-green thingys that just run around in circles?

The Apple funded project of course will be left in a bar, unresponsive due to lack of WiFi signal, and bearing an uncanny resemblance to this man.

I vote for the prototype being patterned after this man...........

With a thin, (yet supple), transparent armor of an advanced latex/polymer compound, he could ram his way into virgin markets with hair-splitting precision.....

You'd be right in standing behind him the whole way...

 

[dividebyzero]

I vote for the prototype being patterned after this man...........

With a thin, (yet supple), transparent armor of an advanced latex/polymer compound, he could ram his way into virgin markets with hair-splitting precision.....

That man is already wearing an advanced latex/polymer compound. A necessary precaution since investors would likely have slightly less faith in the leadership if they knew MS's CEO is in all actuality the Cenobite Butterball

 

[captaincranky]

Meh, could be he might have had a "Lifesyle Lift".

Either that, or those two photos could be used fraudulently as before & after pictures in a "Lifestyle Lift Infomercial".

Are you sure that's not just the 'pitcher' he keeps in his attic?

Do I need to publish a spoiler alert for, "A Portrait of Dorian Gray"?

 

[dividebyzero]

Are you sure that's not just the portrait in his attic?

Quite possibly, but wouldn't that imply that Steve once had a soul to trade at some point ?
Judging by his current appearance, Steve got jobbed on the deal!

Sounds like crazy talk.

 

[captaincranky]

Sounds like crazy talk.

Well, look who we are. But more importantly, consider where we are....

(I edited my prior post, thought it needed a bit of double entendre) (y) (This is after all, Oscar Wilde's turf I've managed to lead us onto. Moses would be soooo proud of me. Or not).

 

[dividebyzero]

Well, look who we are. But more importantly, consider where we are....
(I edited my prior post, thought it needed a bit of double entendre) (y) (This is after all, Oscar Wilde's turf I've managed to lead us onto. Moses would be soooo proud of me. Or not).

True enough. I've met most types of tech forum denizens. A fair percentage when faced with one of those crossword puzzles that allow completion as cryptic, standard, and easy, choose......to play computer games.

Sorry Matthew. Your thread deserved better.....or worse depending on your outlook.

 

[captaincranky]

True enough. I've met most types of tech forum denizens. A fair percentage when faced with one of those crossword puzzles that allow completion as cryptic, standard, and easy, choose......to play computer games.

Or perhaps mutter in wonderment, "WTF is that"!

Sorry Matthew. Your thread deserved better.....or worse depending on your outlook.

Now I'm puzzled. Following the logic, "any publicity is good publicity"....

 

[dividebyzero]

Or perhaps mutter in wonderment, "WTF is that"!

...or "That's a big a$$ QR code. Why the numbers?"
...or "Hey! This monochrome Tetris is all locked up"

Maybe the augmentation that should be highest on the "must have" list is a brain implant module for literacy. The present method ( generally called education I believe) has only a limited installed userbase, so maybe a quick and effortless procedure might see it gain better traction. If the augmentation- along the lies of a manufactured (or biomech) implant was as quick as say that of the Babel fish (or the premiere of Farscape and any similar contrivance to allow the cast to speak and understand English) there is a possibility that you could actually spend more time analysing the thoughts of others than trying to comprehend what's actually intended.

Someone once told me that the human race developed as the dominant (at least non-insect) life form due to the ability to communicate intelligibly...maybe the age of the Eloi is closer than 802701 A.D.

 

[Ranger1st]

From a biophysics pov, most of the performance vector augmentations could never be a stand alone item, they would all require a massive amount of body reconstruction.. and as much as I am LOATHE to use this reference, a adamatiaum? skeletal reinforcement and serious steroid like musculature and ligament improvements just to deal with the new vectors the body can perform. Every time my character landed from 4-5 stories up I cringed at the spinal loading it would cause, ( think 15 elephants on your skull is what the SI joint would see from 4-5 stories up), to someone with just the legs augmented.. oddly the people talking about the augmented dicks could actually get away with it without any external body augmentations.. of course someone you are so fugly that you still wouldn't get laid..

 

[captaincranky]

....[ ].....oddly the people talking about the augmented dicks could actually get away with it without any external body augmentations.. of course someone you are so fugly that you still wouldn't get laid..

Every dog has its day. I'm in my 60's now, but I can assure you, I've scored more a** than the average toilet seat. My personal best was 6 different 'subjects', in the same week.....(wait for it)..... unenhanced.

BTE, how did you slide 'dicks', past the censors?

 

[captaincranky]

Oh my, I think I've even managed to offend myself with that post.....

 

[Razer]

If deus-ex augmentations are available, then I will take:

-cloaking system, and
-icarus landing system

 

[Guest]

It's a nice idea but as a true Christian (not like those fakes who pick and chose which parts they follow) I have to say absolutely not because they are an affront to our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and his sacrificial atonement and as such research into them should be stopped along with all stem cell research and the teaching of all scientific theories which do not support the bible such as evolution, gravity, germ theory, the heliocentric model, general relativity, big bang cosmology, climate change, plate tectonics etc etc.

 

[St1ckM4n]

The human body was never designed for the current first-world civilisation: cars, sitting in office chairs all day looking at screens, etc.

So, I'll gladly take some robo-eyes and titanium teeth, amongst others.

 

[Guest]

Hell no. They can't even make a good toilet seat nevermind "Deus Ex like augmentations".

If everything was not made for profit and there was a degree of quality - but not like that is going to change any time soon.

Money money money money . . .