Well, it's already starting to happen, humans are getting new non-organic parts for various reasons. Some folks have had a serious injury and lost limbs, eyesight, hearing, or something of this nature. Often these parts come with electronic components to help control them. Something we've already seen is that many of these folks have attempted to individualize their new parts, while they grow fond of them. It gives them a sense of self. Now then, isn't this the same reason that people get body piercings, tattoos, and add-on art like components? Okay let's talk about this for second shall we?
Not long ago, I was reading in the major media where someone who had cyborg glasses to help them see better had a group of individuals come up to him at McDonald's and tried to steal his classes. Unfortunately, they were attached to his skull, and they were connected to a sub-dermal computer component. When the thugs ripped the glasses from his head, they caused not only damage to the components, but also to his person. Okay so, why did they do this?
Well we know they were part of the dredges of society, and they probably liked the idea of having these glasses for themselves, thought they could hock them or sell them, that they might be worth something of valuable, and perhaps it was so different and foreign to them that in essence they were afraid in a way, which brought out the fight responses in their brains, perhaps without them knowing it. One could call such an event a hate crime. When I saw that in the news, it made me stop to consider that in the future all of these extra components that are added to people's body will be personalized.
Consider if you will that your add-on memory right now is in your iPhone or personal tech device. Anyone who buys an iPad buys a really nice cover so they can personalize it, and if you buy a new Dell laptop you can get different types of covers or plastic to make it stylish and individualized. It appears to me that in the future all these cyborg human body parts will also become body art which seems to be a human need, but it also maintains their sense of self even if they aren't completely organically whole anymore. Indeed, I would like you to please consider all this on a philosophical and psychological level, and what it really means for future. So think on it.
Lance Winslow has launched a new provocative series of eBooks on Future Concepts. Lance Winslow is a retired Founder of a Nationwide Franchise Chain, and now runs the Online Think Tank; http://www.worldthinktank.net
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