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Before we can have elective surgery to replace our parts with electronic ones?

http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science/09/05/bionic.arm/index.html

This summer the team hit a critical milestone when it finished Proto 2, a thought-controlled mechanical arm -- complete with hand and articulated fingers -- that can perform 25 joint motions. This dexterity approaches that of a native arm, which can make 30 motions, and trumps the previously most agile bionic arm, the Proto 1, which could bend at the elbow, rotate its wrist and shoulder, and open and close its fingers. A person wearing a Proto 2 could conceivably play the piano.

Before we can have elective surgery to replace our parts with electronic ones?


:confused: who would want to do that? (if you have functioning body parts)

:confused: who would want to do that? (if you have functioning body parts)
One word.

Customization.

:confused: who would want to do that? (if you have functioning body parts)

Transhumanists.

:confused: who would want to do that? (if you have functioning body parts)

The Borg. :)

The Borg. :)

The Borg are so boring, and going about it completely wrong. You don't supplement flesh with technology, you replace it.

10 years, give or take depending on the regulatory environment and whether or not major leapfrogs in performance occur (which are likely, but not a given). I imagine some people will do it earlier but at this point in time the technology's just not good enough to replace biological systems. I mean, I plan on doing it when it becomes available, but I'd prefer to make sure my money goes towards something better than what I already have...that's just good monetary sense.

Think of it as the next step in elective surgery. Facelifts today, bionics tomorrow.

When can I get my arm replaced with an electric eel?

:confused: who would want to do that? (if you have functioning body parts)

Robot arms! Play the banjo while driving to work!

thIS IS INDEED AWESOME TECHNOLOGY.

Opps on the capslock.

I was watching something on Discovery Channel on medical advancements and they were showing a guy controlling a cursor with his mind. They had him draw a circle, although it looked more like a square.

It's very exciting, this age of technology we are living in. The advancements being made like these artificial arms and legs with near full range of motion. Artificial eyes that help the blind to see. Everyday printers being converted to print cells into a pattern that creates heart valves for replacement, and could one day print out an entire new heart. We are forming a symbiosis with machines that seems to have endless possibilities, blurring the line of who we are in a way.

thIS IS INDEED AWESOME TECHNOLOGY.

Opps on the capslock.

I was watching something on Discovery Channel on medical advancements and they were showing a guy controlling a cursor with his mind. They had him draw a circle, although it looked more like a square.


Anything has to be an improvement over a mouse, slap a chip in my brain to control a computer? Sign my ass up.

Like this? (http://www.digi-help.com/toms/images/quake-4-screenshot.jpg) ;)

I'm sure that, soon enough, we will have the capability to replace our limbs, hearts, and otherwise clogged arteries with electronic limbs, hearts, and differently-clogged arteries.

However, the process will be pricey, and I guaran-damn-tee my HMO won't cover it.

Anything has to be an improvement over a mouse, slap a chip in my brain to control a computer? Sign my ass up.

Same here. I'd do the same with a lot of various controls and gadgets around the house provided it was secure...

Same here. I'd do the same with a lot of various controls and gadgets around the house provided it was secure...

Should just be a short range transmitter.

I would never want to "replace" my organic parts, as I believe their potential can't even be imagined.

However, I'm happy to have a few extra parts:D Nano reconstruction (regeneration) sounds like my kinda thing:p

Replace my arm with a robotic one, or simply add a robotic arm. I tihnk the latter.

Replace my arm with a robotic one, or simply add a robotic arm. I tihnk the latter.

That could be very bad on your man parts sir.

That could be very bad on your man parts sir.

Just have robot man parts instead. Easily solved.

They had him draw a circle, although it looked more like a square.


can you imagine what would happen if they used that technology to drive cars ;)


no honestly, our own hands for instance are so complex it will take some time they can actually IMPROVE them. Remember you can also feel with them (cold, pressure, touch etc.) they are very precise (I would like to see someone play the banjo with a robot arm) they are light-weight, don't take batteries, make no noise when you use them. and many more advantages That will be hard to attain with a robot arm (especially the feeling, which is kind of important for the more precise work). So imo robot-stuff is good for people who have lost their arms or legs, but not so good to replace them.
It also looks freakishly, remember that you can't cuddle your children with your arms of steel (or what did I read in someones sig?), and unless you can feel how much pressure you're applying it might be best you didn't try either.

Just have robot man parts instead. Easily solved.

But metal on metal.. Sparks will be flying! Would you use oil to lube up?

But metal on metal.. Sparks will be flying!

Kinky.

Would you use oil to lube up?

You ask as if I thought it through...

But metal on metal.. Sparks will be flying! Would you use oil to lube up?

The term "screwing" suddenly becomes much more literal

http://www.satan.lt/main/Images/TbFaq/cybercat.jpg

:D

That is the most glorious thing I have seen in a long time.

http://www.satan.lt/main/Images/TbFaq/cybercat.jpg

:D


Now how the hell would one make that into an Lolcat?

"I'm a robotz, must kill all humanz?

http://www.satan.lt/main/Images/TbFaq/cybercat.jpg

:D

Just have robot man parts instead. Easily solved.

Aha. But then the women start getting robot wimminz parts. You go for a Sony Plus as an early adopter, but soon discover that the majority of the wimmin have gone for the Apple OneFitsAll (which is only compatible with the Apple approved male equivalent....)

Its a world of shit waiting to happen.

http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/pic/CMAG/956-067~Terminator-2-Posters.jpg

Its a world of shit waiting to happen.

Also an obscenely large amount of money, which is of course a major motivation for my involvement.

Before we can have elective surgery to replace our parts with electronic ones?

http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science/09/05/bionic.arm/index.html

That reminds me of this (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetsuo:_The_Iron_Man).

That reminds me of this (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetsuo:_The_Iron_Man).
In one of the film's most controversial sequences, the man discovers his penis has mutated into a gargantuan power drill.

Interesting article there.

Interesting article there.

Well, it's a weird film.

I happened to rent that movie for shits and giggles and yes, very strange.

Before we can have elective surgery to replace our parts with electronic ones?

http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science/09/05/bionic.arm/index.html
And the death of society looms ever larger on the horizon...