So they have the right to repair their own body right? For when the company inevitably goes under, or drops support for this model in favor of a new product line.
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If not, it's still possible to enforce right to repair; most of these arms are able to have 3D-printed components, saw a YouTube video on that.
Don't let this timeline become Cyberpunk 2077. Please, just don't.
does the "open" have any relationship with open source design, or is it just a bullshit marketing tag? I have browsed their site and seen nothing
Definitely just marketing. Otherwise they would be vocal about it being open source.
Don't be ~~a gonk~~ an idiot, they're prosthetics. I appreciate that if I lose my arms I can replace them, but who WANTS to get cybernetics if they can help it? Advertising to the public would be unethical even if it is open source, you want to advertise this to doctors, and even then only within the existing niche. Cybernetics as a commonplace thing were never meant to be more than a 1980s action sci-fi Hollywood fever dream.
I get it. To a degree, we're living in a dystopia, a real one. It's entirely sane to say "the rich did this" and want them to suffer. It's sane to be bothered they're currently getting away with it. Doesn't mean people are stupid, it just means social Darwinism is no different than running civilization as if civilization never existed. The rich right now are generally competently evil, and unfortunately that is what capitalism enforces. "Market forces" and "supply and demand" are just a pretty way to describe "survival of the status quo" because the status quo has always been "ooh, babies are weak and delicious!" because that's how things work in the wild.
This is not the wild. This is not how things should be, regardless if that's "how it's always been". But this is a world where some stories come true. Miami 2017 was written and first sung long before 9/11, MegaMan Battle Network was right on the 00 Green, and Inception was onto something about dreams, if a story has already been written it isn't somehow magically made falsehood.
Uhm. I think you misunderstood me. With more vocal i meant their current advertising material. There are people who need prosthetics you can advertise towards. Or Doctors who work with prosthetics. Although i can understand your criticism, I think it is misplaced here.
Fair enough. I guess I mixed you up with whoever was being a defeatist "only the rich will afford it" about something that has not yet become true. Believing something will come true because "that's how everything works" just hastens that type of world, because if enough people act like that's how it works then it becomes the norm. I'm only a pessimist because I like to be pleasantly surprised, but that level of cynicism is... grating, to say the least.
If it shouldn't be true, refuse to support the mindset needed to survive in such a world. Otherwise your mindset is already exactly who wealthy assholes want you to be, a wage slave who sells their morals to whoever scares them more. Better to die believing in not hurting people for personal gain, a hero, than to live believing that someone successfully stabbing you in the back is a fate worse than death.
In short, strength is a weakness if you live only to stay alive, too many people online say they think there is no hope whatsoever, but I confused you with one of them and sorry about that.
Science: because prayer doesn't work.
how many times stronger are they from a regular humans?
Getting worried aye.
Orders of magnitude. But they nerfed it with a software update so it's fine.
Three cyborgs.
at what point is someone a cyborg 🤔? Is my grandpa a cyborg because he has metal implants in his knees?
What about hearing aids and glasses? They are all mechanical assistance.
oh that's so true I didn't even consider those
It's as weird as you imagine. Glasses are technically cybernetics, if only because they are a prosthetic. Clothing, glasses, through pocket watches and wristwatches and hearing aids all the way up through smartphones and even into Extended Reality (AugReal and VR) all count as "proto-cybernetics" or "pseudo-cybernetics" or "quasi-cybernetics". In short, a tool that you wear.
An internal implant can be properly cybernetic; most such implants are not because the intent is to repair existing organs like bones or heart valves rather than replace. A peg leg does count as cybernetic, but most internal implants are, you know, internal. Like a full mechanical heart replacement, or at least a pacemaker (which is technically an enhancement, a normally-absent "plan B" to save the life of someone with a malfunctioning Central Nervous System or other coronary issue).
All of this is susceptible to a scary-sounding-but-mostly-harmless practice known as "bio-hacking". Bio-hacking is based on the viewpoint that the human body is technically public domain hardware/software, and that each person has dominion over their own body when it comes to medical experimentation. While biohacking can be a risk, examples that I could recommend are wearing a glove with a magnet in the tip of one of the fingers (you'll eventually start sensing subtle magnetic fields nearby), and lucid dreaming (oneironautics is essentially the "hamburger which is a genre of sandwich" to biohacking's "sandwiches are an entire genre of food"). So far, not a single instance of biohacking has been used on unwilling participants outside of preexisting scientific disciplines corrupted by authoritarian governments; individuals can and (IMO) would be well off to experiment on themselves in sane and safe ways, though I'd always recommend discussing it with a doctor to be sure there is no severe health risks.
Oneironautics alone, while not actually related to cybernetics (at least, not directly) is the most awesome and has the lowest barrier to entry of all biohacking possibilities. No implantation is required, only a desire and belief that lucid dreams can, in fact, happen. Just remember, your unconscious will not hurt you, it wants to help and always has helped. The only reason nightmares and such exist is because it reacts to your fears and stresses by showing you your problems, but if you do not want it to hurt you, it will not hurt you. Just try to talk to it, you might be pleasantly surprised!
So yes, there very much is a blurry line between "cyborg" and "ordinary person". The gameplay side of Cyberpunk 2077 is somewhat more accurate than you'd think, IRL if cyberpsychosis were to happen it would be not from over-replacement but a result of tapping into the Central Nervous System in ways that cause permanent sensory damage.
Additionally, I'm no doctor but psychosis is the medical term for hallunations, it's barely even related to psychopathy. I have no idea how the implication of cyberpsychosis being a form of psychopathy could work IRL but I'd say it's unlikely that anyone would be able to prove such a link to begin with. Corporate propaganda aside, people should and do blame car-centric infrastructure for ruining Western civilization, but originally the reason it was unnoticed was because the symptom (overuse of smartphones) was itself a compounding factor and the original cause of traffic jams (inefficient use of space) had never been seen before. "Cybernetics cause psychosis" doesn't mean "cybernetics cause psychopathy", it means "cybernetics make you hallucinate things not there". That means cybernetics are making users panic, not become a form of cybernetic monsters. They'd be scared, unless the corps solved their own problem by (at minimum) providing the real reason cyberpsychosis could affect anyone and how to avoid letting yourself hurt anyone around you. That at least keeps people buying more cybernetics than the bare minimum and is also the truth.
Actual cyberpsycopathy, if I were to write it, would involve a chip damaging the prefrontal cortex in such a way that their moral inhibitions disappear. However, psychopaths cannot actually fake emotion like in the movies. They have no empathy because they have no feelings, only free will and curiosity. As any mad scientist in fiction (or, say, in the employ of a certain horrific historical dictator between 1939 and 1945) might show, curiosity with no morals can lead to some very disturbing actions being taken, but people with psychopathy are not usually ever allowed power over another person's fate.
Cybernetic sociopathy is what I'd call it, except that is best equated to anti-social individuals, either from sociopathy or acting on misanthropic beliefs, who limit all their interaction with other individuals to being over the internet. Disruptive, but not the mass-murderers seen in fiction.
I think cybernetics are going to be designed with ethics and absolute security in mind going forward. Neuralink was a wakeup call to the medical community that the genie will not stay in the bottle forever, and efforts to make cybernetics meet the much more rigorous requirements of the human body and of human morality need to be the top priorities. Corporations will object, but I urge you not to let them have the primary say. Doctors and patients need to put their foot down and say that cybernetics must be the sole legal property of the individual it is attached to.
If we wanted to make a distinction (why?), one could say these implants have a firmware counterpart built in themselves. New upgrades would hopefully bring improvements.
Believe it or not, glasses are cybernetics. Yes, that also means a peg leg or glass eye makes the user a cyborg. Cybernetics as a term is much newer than the practice of prosthetics, and cybernetics is simply defined (iirc) as technology for - and the design of the technology for - prosthetic use. Technically "cybernetic" and "prosthetic" are synonyms. The line drawn is implied to be intent: Medical prosthesis to replace what was lost, or cybernetic enhancement?
I am happy that we are starting to see bionics used to help people and become more accessible. Limbs, eyes, all sorts. If we had someone like Bezos they could choose to invest in this technology, mass produce it and change the lives of millions.
I'm waiting to receive two bionic arms. I have always fantasized about how useful having those two arms would be and how it would feel to be able to use them. I'd even be okay with being called an insect.
I thought for sure this was going to be an Onion-like article.
This and c/nottheonion are the only news communities I'm subbed to anymore, so I had to do a double take
NGL having one of those sounds cool AF.
They alpha testing the cyberpunk parts we've been waiting for
I've been thinking about getting metal legs.