Transhumanism

370Z Purist · 02-27-2011, 05:46 AM

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Originally Posted by Jordo!

At the moment there's been some breakthroughs such as wiring sensors into the occipital lobes of blind people that enable them to make out very blury shapes and also some headway (DARPA funded research, I think) on implanting sensors in the brain to remote control prosthetic limbs.

That said, I think it's going to take a bit more than another 14 years to get us to the point where there are serious man-machine fusions. Maybe in 2050.

I'm expecting major breakthroughs in gene therapy will come first.

Yes, I have heard of some basic bionic eye implants; they apparently implant something like a camera sensor into the back of the eye that is wired into the brain and powered by a battery on the hip. It's very impressive, especially seeing as we are getting closer and closer to nanoassemblies that could potentially mean computer chips smaller than a droplet of water would have more computing power than a home desktop. They've already started building experimental quantum computers using entangled quantum bits, so that could be a very real thing...

We've already got genetic screening. There's already a huge debate over that.