I agree with you in theory but that kind of research wouldn't help him now, realistically both need to be invested in. Sure we should research prevention of this kind of stuff but it's already affecting a lot of people so we just as much should help them overcome their difficulties rather than just saying "you're on your own, we'll fix it before the next batch of people".OniaPL said:
very true, if anything i'd ask if they could turn it into some kind of helmet/hat thing. I'd be too nervous that it'd catch on something (top of a door, something hanging) so i'd like some stability holding it on my head.snagli said:
Due to a side-effect of profound grief and longing, I gained the sense of touch in my dreams, which I had never had before. Our dreams are a collection of our experiences and our thoughts. You don't dream about eyeborgs or smartphone displays or trees if you never saw one.JonB said:
If you're specifically using tech-modifies-neurons as a requirement for being a cyborg, someone beat you to it. Several someones, probably, but the first one I can think of is George Stratton [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perceptual_adaptation#Experimental_support] in the 1890s, who wore a pair of glasses that ultimately changed the way his brain processed images.JonB said:
Traitor...ron1n said:
That's why I said "dumping the cash into developing it"; I'm aware that getting a vector, for example the processed retrovirus to actually bring the gene to the right cell, put it in the right place and for the gene to successfully replace the "broken" part without even taking polygenes into consideration are all problems that would need to be solved. That's what I'd like to see; to get these kind of problems solved.Alleged_Alec said:
Well, I suppose so. But we could also instead just find the answer to the problem sooner to prevent more people with something like achromatopsia being born. Though that delves more into the area of moral dilemmas; whether to let people be born with it and just help them out, or whether to prevent it all together but leaving the pre-existing ones fucked.Frontastic said:
I'm very disappointed in you, Mr. Jensen. You had a prime opportunity to say "At least he asked for this," and instead you make a Justin Beiber joke. For shame. And you call yourself a Deus Ex fan...I'd have half a mind to ask you to relinquish your profile pic. ;PAdam Jensen said:
I believe this condition is called [a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synesthesia"]"synesthesia"[/a].Chemical Alia said:
Sad thing is, despite the cyber-enhancements, potential black hole generators, cloned livestock, laser cannons and railguns, it will never truly feel like the future until I can drive a flying DeLorean...VanQQisH said:
I'm kind of confused by that definition of cyborg, because wouldn't people with glasses qualify in that if they wear them on their foto? What about people with retina chips? Much older than this item, but not externally visible. Does that make retina-chip carriers less of a cyborg rather than more as I would think? And what about the hundreds of thousands of people with cochlea implants, pace-makers, brain-shunts and all sorts of devices implanted into them?. I don't buy it. Whatever. It's a cool invention nonetheless, but sometimes these types of people really get carried away with their cyborg- and transhumanist-fixation to the point where they don't see the forest because of all the trees. My grandma is a cyborg. Her cochlea implant lets her hear.
