Always a thought of Science-fiction it is obvious it will soon become Science-fact. Cybernetic implants will be coming, and in some ways they have already arrived.
Okay so what started me off typing about this, it is not a hard guess, a computer game, all you reading this know I love them so why be surprised. I've recently been playing a brand new game, "Deus Ex: Human Revolution" (Thank you Eidos Montreal & Square Enix, I'll take my money in cash for that little plug) but seriously it is about a sci-fi world in the near future a world filled with 'Augments" as they call it, cybernetic implants. Thinking about it hard, it isn't something we a far away from, we already have some amazing prosthetic limbs for amputees out there, how long before they are grafted onto the flesh and bone as a permanent feature. I mean we are already accustomed to inserting metal into our bodies, Plates in the skull, Titanium hips and I am sure there is development of cybernetic limbs going on as we speak.
The question I have, is it right? A discussion me and the wife had the other evening, is modifying the body with cybernetics morally right, should it, if it were possible, be allowed. Where do you draw the line? Those who are amputees sure, but those are not, are not allowed, should you limit the power it could provide, for example maybe they created a cybernetic arm that output 10 times more power than a standard human arm, should that be legal? Allowed? Would it just cause trouble? It is clearly obvious the path of prosthetics will head into cybernetics one day, whether it is 10, 20 or 100 years time. Then when does that person stop being a human and turn into a robot or cyborg? Would a person be able to replace most of their body and just leave major organs intact? Would that be a human? Would it be used as a weapon? It wouldn't even be big things; what if they could implant your telephone in your ear, a microphone in your brain so what you thought was said in the phone call.
Is this what our world will be heading too? Or do you think people would not take to it, be to purist and would call it defiling the human body?
So, let's for hypothetical sakes say cybernetic implants were real, should they be allowed? Should everyone be allowed them, and then what of the problem that it prolongs the human life, would it over populate us even more? I mean it's a cruel and horrible thing but those who would benefit from it and may not die without it would decrease an already absurd population on this planet.
Then we could get into the topic of "forced evolution" what if we could manipulate our genes, our genetic make up to allow us to be stronger, faster and cure illness, should this be allowed or is messing with evolution wrong? What about medicine, that is messing with evolution, creating medicine to cure illness we wouldn't otherwise be able to fight off?
I would love to hear some of your thoughts on this, I know it's a complete fictitious ramble but one day, maybe not in my life time, it is coming.
