in answer to the question, i just want a wifi attachment at the base of my skull, so i can google search whenever i get curious about something. of course that presupposes all sorts of wifi infrastructure around me... that's ok, i'll take that too.

I'd go the opposite route actually.

I love meat, very rare.

I wouldn't mind being modified to be a "super preditor" one that can actually run as fast as a dear, break it's neck, tear through hide, digest the meat raw before it's cells have died.

It would be a marriage of technology and carniverous mayhem.

I don't consider my desire to enjoy such being a prisoner, there is an elemental beauty to it. I love my cat, she doesn't feel like a prisoner to attack a mouse, for it is in her nature to enjoy the attack... or else she wouldn't bother attacking Yarn, my shoe laces.

Perhaps you'd use technology to remove all that is animal out of the human, but I'd use it to enhance all that is animal and integrate it with my human intellegence... as I would also use it to enhance reasoning functions, sense of smell, taste, reflexes, sexual abilities, etc.

I'm not going to attack humans though, don't worry, their diets are poor, and they are allegedly way too stringy, even when they are fat there isn't much marbling. However I will offer myself for hire to stalk in communities where door to door salesmen, Jehovas Witnesses, Mormons, and other people barging in on restful sundays unwelcome. It would be a public service, eh?

Muhahahhaaha!

I think I'd like an implant that can take a person's name and face, analyze the first several sentences of their conversation, and cross-reference these data with an onboard archive of the entire text content of the internet. Imagine, upon meeting someone, being able to look up the top ten dumbest (or cleverest) things they've ever e-mailed, posted, or blogged. Of course "dumb" and "clever" would be customizable by the user, and add-on packs could compute probabilities of membership in various religions, self-help groups, social movements, political parties, television or radio audiences, and the like.

More generally, computer-assisted conversation analysis would be a handy human spam filter:

"You carry a dictionary in your backpack?"
"Saves time. I also have Life and People magazines."

> Bayesian computations are complete.
> P (saw Road House more than twice) is 85 to 93%
> P (competitive over Scrabble) is 52 to 71%
> P (gets all news from CNBC) is 60 to 64%
> Rescue ring to cell phone? (Y / N)

yeah, I'm thinkin neuromancer...the chick with the silver "glasses" implants..she had a clock display in her eye...like that, but maybe vga inputs...maybe even put a camera in them and make them smart. heads up displays-spacial recognition-infrared and image intesified...oh yeah and a clock, can't forget the clock. anyway, imagine your driving through the back roads of texas at night and there's a deer on the side of the road up ahead your image enhancments aren't on cause your having a relaxing drive but the camera is checking everything out and bam it's outlining the deer with a dotted yellow line and you think, "oh deer, I'd best slow down.". anyway, my idea is full of holes I know...but it's a neat idea nonetheless.
-Bill

ps. first time post. hi everybody!

i would want to be a borg, like from star trek. completely deterritorialized subjectivity.

My ideal cybernetic interface would be a neural implant that allowed me to shape sounds via both external and internal synthesizers for the composition of multi dimensional complexly changing surround sound enveloping musical compositions.

For now just controlling the pre-exisiting synths that are already available without the need to twist knobs or trigger notes/samples would suffice!

Snap to it already manufactures of our future!

I want a thing in my head that can tell where all the activity in my brain is and I connect to someone else with the same device and theirs will fire in the same place and then it can send things back the other way. It would be like telepathy without words. We are pretty close to doing that. I think maybe researchers have tried it.

a Spine.

As a small leap, I'd start with new lenses for my eyes. Highly flexible, optically perfect.

Big leap stuff:
New eyes with associated optical processing extending meaningful sensation into the infrared and ultraviolet.
New ears with associated aural processing,

First, I'm new, so this is my "hello" post.

What kinds of cybernetics do I want?

Before I say what I'd want, let me share my definition of a cyborg:

Any already-living subject who enhances their body with artificial implants or modifications, be those surgically attached mechanical arms with great strength and durability, organically grown eyes that see in different spectrums that surgically replace the original eyes, using nanobotic surgery to reshape the skeleton into a honeycone structure to reduce weight without significantly reducing skeletal strength, or genetic modifications that cause the brain to grow an internal radio-sensitive lobe.

Yes, I know that's rather vague, and includes non-mechanical augmentation, but that's just what I see cybernetics as possibly including. After all, Palladium Games Rifts RPG has a whole section of cybernetics called "Bio-Systems" which are organic implants grown in a lab and tailored to the customer's DNA which are surgically implanted; they aren't strictly mechanical, yet they are cybernetics.


As for what I want ASAP, I want a computer interface. Let me input thoughts, mental images, etc. directly into my computer. If I can imagine it, I can create it in an MPEG. Then I might be able to actually create and complete one of those bazillions of ideas that're in my brain, but I just can't translate them into non-thought medium due to sucky to non-existant artistic skills. Another use would be VR FPS games; instead of being limited by what your average game engine is designed to let the player do, you can jump and swing on pipes, shoot blindly around corners, etc.

Next on the list would be eliminate eating and drinking from my regimine, first by upgrading my skin with photosynthetic ability, and implanting some sort of organ in my gut that would recycle various nutrients as they are used and rendered into the "waste" that commonly leaves the body via urine (it would definitely replace the bladder). In addition, increasing the body's efficiency and reducing output from flaking skin fragments and sweat would be areas of focus at this point, as would reducing the overall effect of age and stagnation; remove atrophy from the body if possible, while maintaining the ability of organic tissue to self-regenerate and improve with regular use. Adding regeneration ability to my brain would also be desirable, as long as it didn't have any psychological side effects (not counting reversing actual brain damage, but counting trying to reverse "supposed" damage like deviation from social "norms" etc.).

Hmm, now to look through cyborg.com.hr . . .

Wonder how high my cost will be . . .

My ideal would be a full augmetic body, the only biological organ remaining being my brain housed in a shielded brain-case with an array of synthetic organs to produce anything the brain needs to function optimally. Since the main aim here is to become superior and near-immortal physically while maintaining my humanity in a psychological sense, I'd need to undergo some form of gene therapy to avoid eventual degeneration of my biological matter.

Outwardly my appearance would be close to human, but not completely indistinguishable. My synthetic skin would have to separate to expose sockets otherwise shielded from harsh conditions. (cybernetics and dust storms don't really mix). I'd have internal computing components and a wireless connection all linked to my vision and fed directly to my brain, effectively giving me a thought-driven computer external to my own consciousness. Various ways of harvesting and storing energy would have to be implemented to maintain a level of self-sufficiency that doesn't rely on plugging in to the mains. Some methods could be my synth-skin performing photosynthesis, a synthetic stomach to gain energy through chemical reactions while taking matter to resupply the synthetic organs preserving my brain. Alternatively, I could cop-out and just say "lol fusion", but where's the creativity in that?

A lot of people seem to be talking about uploading their consciousness into a machine to become a purely digital, immortal being. I have gone to such great lengths here to avoid that because as I see it what you would be doing is creating a digital clone of yourself. That unique consciousness that is you would die and your cloned consciousness which, although extremely similar to you, would never actually be "you" would live on in your name. I suppose some people are okay with this, as it would be an indistinguishable transition to any observer. And it could be looked at by yourself as leaving an heir to continue your legacy, but I stick by my choice that when I die, I die.

Phew, I guess that's about it. Sorry for the wall of text.