It's just like the Cybermen/Matrix/a future shock

[Floyd-the-k]

Well, not reaally. but I thought you'd be interested

Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transhumanism" target="_blank">couldjustbeabunchoftossers

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Bloody Transhumanists, What's the name of that Cyborg tosser from the University of Nottingham?

(At least I think that's the university he's from, might be Warrick, I'm rambling now...)


Bloody Transhumanists....

[nofuture]

Ooooooooooooooooooo, they do FREE brain washing too!

[spacemanspliff]

Yeah i've heard of those morons before,they are all a bunch of over-weight Star Trek fans who wanna' be Borg.(funny why would you wanna' be swedish?)

[scutfink]

Kevin Warwic, http://www.kevinwarwick.com/" target="_blank">that's the arse I meant...

[JOE SOAP]

...obviously can't get laid.

[Art]

You need to mention Kevin Waricks attempts to make himself into a cyborg/total mediawhore.

[Quirkafleeg]

I now worry for Art's future....





"Wyatt? Arthur Wyatt? I have been sent CyberWarickDyne..."http://pub.tv2.no/multimedia/na/archive/00203/arnold_schwarzenegg_203028s.jpg">

[Art]

Timewaze zero! Eschaton!

[JOE SOAP]

2012 -Global temporal lobe epilepsy.

[Floyd-the-k]

since he's apparently had a microchip implaned in his wife so they can communicate at a distance (I just use the phone myself), he obvously can get laid, kind of

[Al_Ewing]

Jesus Christ, listen to you people! What's wrong with a little human-machine fusion, eh? I know I'd like to be able to operate an army of robo-arms across the world with the power of my intellect.

[ThryllSeekyr]

Is this a bionics support movement?

[scutfink]

Sorry, I know I shouldn?t be dwelling on this but, the mention of Transhumanism tends to set me off on a Kaczynskiesque Neo-Luddite rant?

See, I have a couple of problems with Post-Humans in general and y?r man Warwick in particular, first of all, the following quote comes from a Guardian interview he did ?
In the future, I believe, we will be able to send signals to and from human and machine brains. We will be able to directly harness the memory and mathematical capabilities of machines. We will be able to communicate across the internet by means of thought signals alone.
?He went further into this in an interview I saw on the Sci-Fi Channel a few years back, it seems he envisages a world where we?ll all be able to download our consciousnesses into one another through wireless internet connection?
 Now this may just be a case of the classic absent minded scientist concentrating so hard on the innovation they don?t see the implication, (If Alexander Graham Bell could?ve foreseen telemarketing, would he really have bothered?) but it seems to me that internet security is bad enough without inviting some potential psychopath into my body to use it in the commission of god knows what crimes without leaving any physical evidence of his involvement?
Furthermore, it seems there are two different definitions of a ?Cyborg?, either as a human whose abilities are improved by some form of technological enhancement, or a machine which requires an organic component to properly function. Either way Prof Warwick is way off with his claims of being the world first cyborg, that honour probably goes to this guy?
In 1817 Baron von Drais invented a walking machine that would help him get around the royal gardens faster: two same-size in-line wheels, the front one steerable, mounted in a frame which you straddled. The device was propelled by pushing your feet against the ground, thus rolling yourself and the device forward in a sort of gliding walk. The machine became known as the Draisienne or hobby horse. It was made entirely of wood. This enjoyed a short lived popularity as a fad, not being practical for transportation in any other place than a well maintained pathway such as in a park or garden.
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Many people agree that the Bicycle is the simplest form of Cyborg, it conforms equally well to either of the above definitions, and if a bike is a Cyborg then, via the medium of logical extension, so too is a Car?

And this is where the Ted Kaczynski in me comes out, you see a brief scan of some recent statistics shows annual deaths by Cyborg to be 400 times higher than deaths by International Terrorism, Bird Flu, Paedophiles and Illegal Immigrants combined. To my mind this makes them the single most deadly threat to the survival of the human race, as such I propose a regular culling of these monsters just to give us a fighting chance (I would condone total genocide, but I?ve typed a whole page now, and I?ve calmed down a bit?)

Aaanyway,  Transhumans/ Cyborgs/ Whatever, not such a good idea...

[Rant mode off...]
 

[Dudley]

it seems to me that internet security is bad enough without inviting some potential psychopath into my body to use it in the commission of god knows what crimes without leaving any physical evidence of his involvement?

If only there were some way of linking this discussion back to comics... some tale in which these issues are discussed in the graphic medium...

Yes, if only that existed.... I wonder what it would look like?
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