If it were possible to enhance yourself with cybernetic implants, would you?

For example, if you could replace your human eyes with machines that had better clarity, zooming capabilities, infrared, and x-ray abilities. Or machines that make your muscles stronger and able to work longer without tiring. Or brain implants that allow you to do math like a calculator, remember better, or download knowledge directly into your mind. Imagine if you could get a college education in one download instead of years of schooling. If such things ever become possible, would you consider having surgery to get them?

If it were possible to enhance yourself with cybernetic implants, would you?
Not until at least fifty years after the technologies came out.





Imagine optical scanners, version 1.0. They give you superhuman vision, unless they crash, in which case your vision becomes screen-frozen, or fades to black, or gets stuck in an alternating cycle of zoom vs. infrared. Then I would have to wait a week at home until the tech came out to fix my eyes.





Version 1.0 of my muscle enhancers are run by microprocessors, so they might give me the worst charlie horse in history if I sit too close to a magnet.





Version 4.0 of my brain implants might be reasonably secure. Version 1.0 would probably get hacked by a neighbor kid. He would access my recent memories of the stomach flu, and make me relive a particularly awful puking episode--over and over and over....





I suppose I could download a college education, but education costs money, so naturally, I would have to download a bunch of advertising as well, mostly in the form of pop-up thoughts. Yes, I would think thoughts like these: "I think, therefore I am...hungry for a big juicy McFlue's burger!" "Energy equals mass times the speed of light squared...which is what you get with Adrenolon Energy Drink!"





Of course, with all this metal junk surgically implanted in my body, I wouldn't dare have an MRI. If I did, something would happen that you don't describe on a family-oriented Answers post.





And if my surgical implants needed to be fixed or replaced, guess what that would mean! That's right, more surgery. Including more brain surgery. But hey, what's a little brain surgery every now and then? A small price to pay for keeping up with technology, wouldn't you say?





But then again, maybe technology is never quite as advanced as we like to think it is.





Rainchild
Reply:yes and i plan on that
Reply:Yes, if I had the money to get such surgery. But then again, maybe not...
Reply:Yes after years of no problems on others who had them.
Reply:Yes
Reply:no.. that would make me feel like less of a human being and more like a robot.
Reply:if it were totally safe, absolutely
Reply:problem here is, the implants would not enhance the soul. forget your idea - stay natural.
Reply:If someone were to upload a virus into your computer chip in your brain and then it blew up and you became a vegetable, would you regret getting the chip?
Reply:If I had the chance to be more like the superheroes that everyone has read about in comic books. The answer would be an emphatic yes.





Yes; The sciences are full of risk, but usually with risks come benefits. As it stands now, the regulatory agencies slow science down exponentially. There is too much caution and too little risks for my likes.





If the Write Brother’s had such scrutiny, we would still be stuck on the ground.
Reply:If "they" can track me by sattelite... no.

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