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2373948 No.2373948 [Reply] [Original]

When will I be able to become a cyborg or some sort of immortal?

>> No.2373954

>>2373948
Approximately thirty years at the earliest, a century or two at the latest. Assuming we are not somehow drug down into a dark age.

>> No.2373956

Probably within the next century or so, give or take a few decades.

What, were you expecting a specific date to mark on your calendar?

>> No.2373968

depends they have cyborg arms now, legs will be next...

eyes have been done

>> No.2373983

lol

>> No.2373990

>>2373968
Firstly, those are known as "prosthetics," which are artificial replacements for any part of the body (from prosthetic limbs to prosthetic heart valves). Cochlear implants are another good example of how such technologies are progressing. Of course, depending on your definition of "cyborg," anyone with a pacemaker could potentially "be" one.

>> No.2374000

Immortality is an idiotic pipedream.
Everything ends eventually.
Extending life is merely prolonging the inevitable.
Not that there is anything wrong with prolonging the inevitable just that it's foolish to think that it's possible to live forever.

>> No.2374007

>>2373990
just to clarify im talking about arms that are hooked to the nerves and move just like a normal arm does, they send back temperature and pressure signals that people can feel although not as good as the real thing, not prosthetics that are attached to muscle tissue

>> No.2374018

>>2374007
> although not as good as the real thing
Indeed, not as good.
MUCH better!

>> No.2374029

>>2374007
As of yet, there are no widespread prosthetics of that sort. There are prosthetic arms that can detect muscle movement just under the skin in a non-invasive manner, and they move accordingly. By "hooked to the nerves," what exactly do you mean? Nerves are not exactly the most resilient type of cell.

>> No.2374044

>>2373948

The most specific answer I dare suggest is: if, in fifty or seventy years, you are influential, well-connected, still alive, and spectacularly wealthy, then you might enjoy many decades more "life" after that. Can't promise you any details, or say what that quality of life will be like.

>> No.2374061

Immortality is a fickle thing, I'd estimate that in about 30 to 50 years, aging is going to disapear. However, there is always a chance that you are going to be hit by a bus, or trip down the stairs, or crash your car, or eaten by a grue. Repairing damaged proteins can be done, not now but it's possible. surviving daily life is a statistical brick wall. Nobody's sure when you're FTL drive decides that it wants to follow einstein and rends your electron bonds, but somethings going to kill you eventually.

We can turn people into cyborgs now. It's just crappy and options are limited.

>> No.2374069

>>2374061
>Immortality is a fickle thing,

Keep in mind, all, that immortality does not equate to "invincibility" to any extent. As this poster pointed out, besting a death by aging doesn't mean your gray matter can't get smackered on a street by a bus.

>> No.2374075

look into Ray Kurzweil's theory on singularity.

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2374089

>>2374069
>implying we use anything but computronium as a substitute for grey matter in the future

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2374103

>>2374089
>and the fragments of your motherboard scatter across the pavement

Wait...
>computronium

I...

>> No.2374109

>>2374103
In the future 99 percent o all matter is computronium.

>> No.2374114

>>2374109
If it ain't computing or fusing, it's just bending space.

>> No.2374140

>>2374114
I mad.