Say it were technologically feasable to install a bio-port or some other device into your body. Would you do it? Of course, it's something optional like a hard drive in your brain or a wire connecting out that lets you "dream" what you want, not some thing mandatory like an artifical heart where you need it to live. People do all sorts of surgeries to themselves nowadays, from fake breasts to injecting their faces to make them look younger. If it could improve your memory or make your quality of life that much better, would you go ahead with it? Personally I would. I don't know how many times I wished I had a little hard drive in my brain so I could remember everything I needed to pick up at the grocery store, or remember a gf's birthday. And the pornographic dreams with all the Pussycat Dolls would be pretty cool too.
Those are both fairly standard- I'd go for it. There are some other more interesting possibilities out there, and to be honest I'd probably "upgrade" as much as possible.
Consider in the next 20-30 years the rapid miniaturization of hard drives, flash memory drives and OTA receivers. I would most certainly consider it were it a feasible option. -J.
I plug in well enough with text and imagination. I don't need a metal thing sticking out of my head that's prone to infections, and that my body will keep trying to reject and push out. Never mind all the horrors viruses and ghost-hacking would bring.
I think in a century or so, human beings will communicate through virtual telepathy via nano-implants that can access a wireless ethernet.
i'd love an mp3 implant, say a 20gig flash drive implanted, and connected to my auditory system and running off my body.
Indeed, one of the things that reminds me that we really are living in a technologically awesome age is the fact that some people could right now, if they wanted to get implants that would effectively seem like telepathy to anyone from fifty years ago.
Considering how associative the brain is, it's more like L1 cache and translation lookaside buffers (TLB), which are really freaking expensive, than hard disk, or even RAM. I would not want a hard drive, and the best 8-way associative hardware cache can't even begin to approach the cost or size of a human brain, though it would be much faster.
This is going to become more and more common. I had an idea about implants for people who need regular doses of medication. I don't know how feasible it would be to stimulate certain dreams or hallucinations, but it's an interesting subject and one we'll most likely have to confront in our lifetimes.
Already being done. Got one in me now. Takes a minor surgery, and feeling them hollow out an area in my chest to put it in was no fun, but it does make drawing blood or taking certain meds easier. Basically it's a Harkonnen heart plug.
I would totally go for it, as long as it's easily and cheaply upgradeable. I wouldn't wanna be stuck with the equivalent of a 16 color DOS-only machine while everyone else is running Windows 3000. It would be cool to record my entire day onto a video file as well, then store any important parts on my computer. Resistance is futile.
Is it like a central line, to make injections easier? My idea was for a device with a timer that would automatically release the correct dosage of medicine at a specified interval.
It says a lot about the speed of progress we're experiencing that I can't decide whether you're kidding or not.
Why do you regret it? And do you need it to live? If you don't like it, why don't you get it removed? (Or will the Borg Queen allow that? )
You gusy should read Peter Hamilton then. Pandora's Star/Judas Unchained and his Nights Dawn Triology go into detail about all sorts of inserts. If the stuff he writes about exsisted then hell yeah sign me up.
I want a shotgun in my fake leg so that when someone is about to arrest me, I ask if I can sit down. I put up my leg and tell the guy I got a shotgun pointed at him, when he thinks there aint nothin I can do. I bet nobody got the reference
I wouldn't go as far as an actual implant, but I might consider something like a glove or outergarment that functioned as a hard drive or computer.
In a heartbeat. I would put in a data recorder at the drop of the hat. I would also use a pretty unreliable transporter if it meant instantaneous travel rather than hours and hours on the road or in the air. (For big, continental-level trips. Hypothetically speaking, I'd accept a 1% chance of a major mishap 1-2 times a year for trips greater than 6 hours.)
Volpone agrees: That new Tarantino production? nope. It was an A-Team episode. Pretty crappy reference, but it popped into my head face might know it
Assuming it'd been proven safe and free of Windows-like glitches (Blue screen of death, anyone?)...I'd do it in a heartbeat!
Ah, but see, that's the thing, it never would be. Assuming it worked perfectly, some hacker would come up with something nasty, and spoil that perfection good and fucking quick. Imagine a Goatse bomb you could smell and taste as well as see. And that's the tip of the iceberg.
You would have to lower those odds a lot before you would get me taking that chance. Let's work it out. A 1% chance of major mishap, 2 times a year. That means that say you used that device for 50 years, the odds say you will probably have a major mishap during that time. In fact, using it for 25 years you have a fifty/fifty chance of something going horribly wrong.
Ugh. I sure hope it's ok if no one really imagines that. Even thinking about imagining it is too much.
