Cybernetic enhancements don't have to be implanted wetware. An iPhone in your hand is just a much an extension of the memory and eyes and ears as having cameras and computers jammed in your head. Our generation will probably have too much squick factor to actually do anything with implants when they arrive in two or three decades, but we'll still have augmented reality and dependency on the enhanced powers that device extensions of the body and mind give us. Also I'm willing to bet that surgery in the future won't be as big a deal with robot assistance and other advancements, but anything beyond wearable enhancements is further off. But that will happen too!
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ninetydegrees
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on 2009-04-01 03:48 am (UTC)