Transhumanism

[French G.]

I'll take the Terminator cyborg eye, built in IR and range finding, never know when you might need such.

[Viking]

Hell yes. I got extra tuition in high school to try to get a passing grade in math (didn't work). Getting some sort of implant, or perhaps some gene that provides me with a permanent neural booster to fix it or to assist me in learning? Gimme nao!

[BlueStarLizzard]

i see this as the opposite of Harrison Bergeron, but with the same result.

[Regolith]

Don't know.  I'd have to do a risk/benefit analysis first.  If the risks of death, debilitation, etc were very low, and the benefits great, I'd do it (if I had the money).  Otherwise, probably not. 

[Sindawe]

No, I don't think so.  Going down that path can only end badly.

[RevDisk]

No, I don't think so.  Going down that path can only end badly.

How so?

[Ryan in Maine]

Definitely. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_in_the_Shell

[Laurent du Var]

"improve human mental and physical characteristics"

sure, as soon as they show me someone with the spider/superman physical characteristics I'll let them work
on my ancien greek.....

Godless idiots.

[Cromlech]

Godless idiots.

All praise the Omnissiah.

[Viking]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48vGcv3iR-k

[erictank]

I've gotta admit, the idea of being able to "jack in" a skill set, language, etc. at need has some appeal to me.  [Neo]"Whoa.  I know kung fu."[/Neo]  Build up a whole library of data/skill chips, and break out what you need, when you need it.  Granted that it certainly opens up a whole new world of personal/data security issues... No, I won't be doing it when Gen 1.0 comes out, guaranteed.  But I'd be interested in that sort of thing.

On the physical end of things... well, at the moment, I'm running on all original parts, with only mild external assistance (I wear contacts to correct pretty bad myopia to slightly better than 20/20).  I am, however, a diabetic maintaining fair blood-sugar control with meds who's struggled with weight issues for a long while now - the idea of hardware assistance for various bodily systems would be enticing, no lie.  I can see some replacement or "upgrade" parts which I'd love to have, for a wide variety of reasons.  And that's not even considering musculoskeletal and nervous upgrades for speed, strength, durability, physical sensors accepting additional types and ranges of inputs - biotechnic implants like those David Weber writes about in his 'Dahak' series ('Mutineer's Moon', 'The Armageddon Inheritance', and 'Heirs Of Empire', or the 'Ashes Of Empire' omnibus collection - the first book is available for free as an ebook at the Baen Free Library online) would be VERY nice indeed.

So, yeah, I'd probably end up with one or more "upgraded" systems, given the choice.

[BlueStarLizzard]

I've gotta admit, the idea of being able to "jack in" a skill set, language, etc. at need has some appeal to me.  [Neo]"Whoa.  I know kung fu."[/Neo]  Build up a whole library of data/skill chips, and break out what you need, when you need it.  Granted that it certainly opens up a whole new world of personal/data security issues... No, I won't be doing it when Gen 1.0 comes out, guaranteed.  But I'd be interested in that sort of thing.

On the physical end of things... well, at the moment, I'm running on all original parts, with only mild external assistance (I wear contacts to correct pretty bad myopia to slightly better than 20/20).  I am, however, a diabetic maintaining fair blood-sugar control with meds who's struggled with weight issues for a long while now - the idea of hardware assistance for various bodily systems would be enticing, no lie.  I can see some replacement or "upgrade" parts which I'd love to have, for a wide variety of reasons.  And that's not even considering musculoskeletal and nervous upgrades for speed, strength, durability, physical sensors accepting additional types and ranges of inputs - biotechnic implants like those David Weber writes about in his 'Dahak' series ('Mutineer's Moon', 'The Armageddon Inheritance', and 'Heirs Of Empire', or the 'Ashes Of Empire' omnibus collection - the first book is available for free as an ebook at the Baen Free Library online) would be VERY nice indeed.

So, yeah, I'd probably end up with one or more "upgraded" systems, given the choice.

check out the last episode of Dollhouse. they had folks that added the hardwear to their heads and would use USB drives to remove data and add other data. if they had the skill set on a drive they could use it, but only run so many at a time.
a person could remove 'fear' and load up "beserker', take out 'cooking' and load 'gun skills', and viola solider.

[S. Williamson]

And in the process become a foaming-at-the-mouth monster who likes sauerkraut and kidney pudding. 

[sanglant]

i want one of these, but an implant. no way nohow.

[Nightfall]

If it helps me achieve my goal of living forever, I'd probably implant a lot of things in my head. 

[Mabs2]

I'm already better than 95% of humanity.   Don't need to go messing with that, to get a leg up on the competition.

[mellestad]

No, I don't think so.  Going down that path can only end badly.

If transhumanism leading to Jerry Ryan in a sking tight suit is wrong, I don't want to be right.

[S. Williamson]

http://www.deusex3.com/