[QUOTE=catbarf;29791530]Basic physics. Find a way to bend light artificially, carry around the portable nuclear generator necessary to provide enough energy for such a task (you can calculate the theoretical maximum efficiency power requirement yourself- rest assured, it's high), and somehow integrate this across every square inch of your body, and it might be possible. But #1 is the real sticker.
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Note that the first is essentially a super-duper camouflage coat (not exactly the kind of thing you can integrate into your skin), while the second is still barely theoretical and still has some serious issues to overcome- such as requiring a device made entirely of specific materials in specific shapes, which the human body assuredly is not.[/QUOTE]
[img]http://operatorchan.org/s/arch/src/s19797_No%20Fun%20Allowed.jpg[/img]
[QUOTE=rosar0980;29801144]Something like Project Spartan II. Aka the project in the HALO universe that created Master Chief. [url=http://halo.wikia.com/wiki/SPARTAN-II_augmentation_procedures]Specifics here.[/url] Except it would be a little safer, hopefully.[/QUOTE]
[url=http://warhammer40k.wikia.com/wiki/Space_Marines#Implantation_of_Astartes_Organs]You were saying?[/url]
:smug:
[QUOTE=Nerts;29798683]Someone's already did that, actually, to themself and in their own bathroom too.
[url]http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/12/transcending-the-human-diy-style[/url]
[url]http://grinding.be/2011/01/06/lepht-anonym-cybernetics-for-the-masses/[/url]
She looks pretty cyber-punk too :v:
[img_thumb]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5636656/lepht%20anonym.png[/img_thumb][/QUOTE]
thatsthejoke.jpg
[QUOTE=jimhowl33t;29802190][url=http://warhammer40k.wikia.com/wiki/Space_Marines#Implantation_of_Astartes_Organs]You were saying?[/url]
:smug:[/QUOTE]
Son of a bitch I read that entire thing
That's a LOT of organs
Technology will advance quite fast and we'll be seeing it come about quicker than expected but its really going to be quite a way until we see it as a part of every day life. Even then I really doubt its going to become the next biggest thing.
I wrote a paper on microcomputing a couple of months ago for science research and its a pretty cool idea, but like I haven't seen any recent research journals or articles on it, all of them are pretty old
But what the hell are you talking about changing human biology with microcomputing?
How the fuck do you do that?
[QUOTE=JohnnyOnFlame;29803085][img_thumb]http://www.wired.com/images/article/magazine/1509/pl_bioshock34_f.jpg[/img_thumb][/QUOTE]
That changing DNA, not replacing things with artificial stuff
[QUOTE=Scar;29803316]That changing DNA, not replacing things with artificial stuff[/QUOTE]
Does genetic alteration count as augmentation? It's transhumanist at any rate.
[QUOTE=BigOwl;29802499]thatsthejoke.jpg[/QUOTE]
Ah, whoops, "great minds think alike"? :v:
Robotic prostehtics are the way of the future. Nanotechnology would be fucking hard to maintain and to build. Robotic hands, though, you only have to care about connecting them properly to nerves, or maybe your muscles could trigger the response. Nanobots will coem afterwards, though.
Either this, or extensive genetic modification is the way forward, personally, I'd be more inclined towards gene mods, as they'd be passed on to future generations, effectively continuing our evolution. Augmentation through cybernetics will lead to total dependence IMO.
As an actual transhumanist, you have no idea how much I long for this, and the good thing is, technology is moving so quickly forward, it may be a few years around the corner.
Nanotechnology is too mainstream, femtotechnology up this bitch.
I'm becoming a cyborg as soon as possible.
This kind of shit is going to create an even bigger rift between the rich and poor and basically destroy human society so I'm p. glad I'll be dead before it hits the mainstream
[QUOTE=Zeke129;29805949]This kind of shit is going to create an even bigger rift between the rich and poor and basically destroy human society so I'm p. glad I'll be dead before it hits the mainstream[/QUOTE]
Not necessarily. All we have to do is put on our :science: caps and figure out a way to make the technology as subversive as possible.
I'm happy if I get eerily glowing eyes
Like this dude
[img_thumb]http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100312050616/masseffect/images/thumb/7/73/ME2-Illusive_Man-Headshot.jpg/526px-ME2-Illusive_Man-Headshot.jpg[/img_thumb]
I was reading this book, the author is a woman who can see the future. Wether or not if this is going to be true or not, but she said around 2020 there will be advanced technology that can eliminate blindness and being deaf.
[QUOTE=Zeke129;29805949]This kind of shit is going to create an even bigger rift between the rich and poor and basically destroy human society so I'm p. glad I'll be dead before it hits the mainstream[/QUOTE]
I kind of want to be here [and relatively young] when this shit emerges.
Human augmentation? Within six months.
[QUOTE=ZenX2;29791721]Dick Cheney doesn't have a heart beat, he has some sort of external blood circulator.[/QUOTE]
left ventricular implant iirc
[QUOTE=Cl0cK;29808094]Human augmentation? Within six months.[/QUOTE]
We've had to endure much, you and I, but within the week,
There will be old men
RUNNING THE WORLD
[QUOTE=GrabbinPills;29802148]dumb picture[/QUOTE]
Discussion about actual technology and what it can actually do and what it will actually be isn't supposed to be made of bullshit fanwanks. Sorry if reality isn't fun enough for you.
[QUOTE=SmashBrosFan11;29806685]I was reading this book, the author is a woman who can see the future. Wether or not if this is going to be true or not, but she said around 2020 there will be advanced technology that can eliminate blindness and being deaf.[/QUOTE]
Well, tech for curing blindness and deafness are starting to appear now(even a few years ago), so its entirely possible that it will be fully available by 2020.
[QUOTE=Eudoxia;29808213]We've had to endure much, you and I, but within the week,
There will be old men
RUNNING THE WORLD[/QUOTE]
GET THE HELL OUT OF HERE, DENTON.
I want lasers that shoot gasoline into my bloodstream.
Aw fuck it, let's get the whole thing out of the way.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vxi7JRJrod4[/media]
[QUOTE=SmashBrosFan11;29806685]I was reading this book, the author is a woman who can see the future. Wether or not if this is going to be true or not, but she said around 2020 there will be advanced technology that can eliminate blindness and being deaf.[/QUOTE]
This already exists, for the most part, I have a friend at school who lost his hearing because of some disease when he was around 4, he has these ear-bud type things IN his ears, like there embedded in his head, and because of them he can hear, hear even better then normal people can. And I'm pretty sure they have devices to help blind people see... Saw something on the discovery channel at some point about it.
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[QUOTE=Scar;29806017]I'm happy if I get eerily glowing eyes
Like this dude
[img_thumb]http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100312050616/masseffect/images/thumb/7/73/ME2-Illusive_Man-Headshot.jpg/526px-ME2-Illusive_Man-Headshot.jpg[/img_thumb][/QUOTE]
Also, oh my god yes, do want. That would look so cool.
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