i am waiting for cyborgs and augmentations, then maybe we wont need food for energy anymore, we could survive the way plants do, by using sunlight to charge ourselves.

any part we damage could be easily replaced easily. i am not talking making us extremely strong or fast but we could us addons to do heavy lifting, or if we wanted go from one place to another. and as far as hacking goes its not possible unless a connection is made with the system either wireless or wired, that is like if the device does not transmit data wirelessly then it cannot be hacked wirelessly.. for example you cannot hack your washing machine wirelessly or do anything wirelessly to it. so you are safe.

LOL NO.

Cyborgs are kinda of a bad thing I think... It's great for that people who really need it... But what if you augment yourself so much that you can be hacked by a computer or something?

@hazardousracerx yes I agree but no that would not be a zombie. a zombie is a flesh eating reanimated corpse that can only be killed by damaging the brain, which takes away the credbility of nearly all Resident Evil Games as a zombie game on a side note...but what you are describing could be possible, but no it would not be a zombie unless it had the hunger for flesh could bite others and transform them in to zombies and can only be killed through brain damage...unless u are telling me 60+ years of what a classic zombie is, is wrong...although i'm not sure if the biting and the person being bitten transforming into a zombie started with the genre; might have came later so check me up on that

Just make cyborg women already, everything else can wait.

@DanGleeSack No matter how much science you try and throw at it there will never be walking dead people who can only die by shooting them in the head and have a hunger for brains. u can do all the genetic manipulation u want it just won't happen period! Bathsalts and PCP are drugs that alter your brain chemistry, people can naturally canibialize on their own without drugs or viruses. zombies are not real they will never be real so u can prepare for the zombie apocolaypse with your internet pals all u want but it aint gonna happen bud...

I cannot articulate how incredible it would be to be able to see a magnetic field.

I think that if prostedic limbs make it to that kind of stage then i surly hope we would be making cyborg technolgies for people on life suport. Also if a person breaks his/hers arm and technologys alows movent while healing the fracture it self becomes possible it would be for the better good.

A very interesting bit of feature reporting. Having had a reconstructive knee surgery after dropping approx. 30 feet during a skiing outing (I was good, but not good enough to take that jump haha), I have a donor's ACL attached within my knee via a titanium pin. Since it's in the functional joint of my knee, I suppose I'm a cyborg LOL. All kidding aside, though, I'm still quite "real" but, on moral and ethical principles (and do not confuse that with religious beliefs -- religion plays no part in viewpoint) I am opposed to by-and-large cybernetic entities. Don't get me wrong, if medically necessary (loss of a limb, blindness, deafness, catastrophic organ failure, etc.), I find it extremely difficult to not support such implants or augmentations. However, should the augmentations ever allow us to be more than human, especially in regards to performance/function/intelligence??? I don't believe so, and I sincerely hope that that does not happen. Will it happen, though? Quite likely ... but not in my lifetime, as relatively young as I may be. And, I am fully aware that much of what I have written above is, in itself, a mishmash of contradictions. And, it's because of these inherent contradictions that the all questions regarding the ethics of such cybernetic enhancements and one’s own humanity, stems from. Just how much humanity can be lost before one is no longer truly human? The soul (oops, here we go ... religion, no matter what creed, has just crept into my diatribe) is lost at what point? Well, enough of the human ramblings from one who studied English literature and aspects of the human condition while he attended college. Oh yeah, by the way, I wear contact lenses.

Not sure about it becoming a possibility, but if visual upgrades and improved arms or legs become possible, I would not be against upgrading myself for shits and giggles.

leave it in the world of fiction thx. i dont need cyborgs running around wanting to steal my shoes and cyborg gangs,

I have hearing aids (a Cochlear™ Baha® hearing aid), I was born with having to wear hearing aids, I can only hear through bone conductive hearing... I guess thats in some relation to this... augmentation cyborg stuff. Baha implant: http://www.umm.edu/otolaryngology/baha.htm

OH, and Cameron, can you please tell me what tshirt your wearing?

Its really cool and I want one for my self if you dont mine.

What a GREAT SHOW!!!

Super intresting!

Cybernetics are nice, something I would support, but in the end they will become another cudgel. It's scary stuff when there's already research on weaponizing the microwave...

thanks alot i asked for deus ex a couple weeks ago.

maybe a walking tank video next? mech assault / commander / steel battalion.

What's 37% more handsome than Hugh Jackman?

Any cybernetic implant that is an improvement over natural human ability makes the person a cyborg. if the implant is intended to mimic human ability without any significant improvement of normal function, they are human. If the brain is replaced by a computer, they are a robot, despite any organic components remaining, and even if memories and personality and transferred to the computer.

I had lots of trouble trying to understand what the oxford man said. Do I need a language augmentation?

Funny how religion and philosophy were the foundation of human civilisation for so long and now they seem to do little more than blocking the path of further development... may be things really aren't meant to last forever, and that includes Socrates... and God.

I fail to see the advantages here. If we want to be super-humans of sorts, why can't we just have Iron-man-esque super-suits? If you want to be augmented, you would have to lose some of yourself to be replaced by high-tech machinery, and so you would lose that part of yourself forever. If you had a simple ability-enhancing suit, you could just slip into and out of it as necessary. the process of becoming a cyborg is too impractical and extreme to be beneficial, unless you have already lost a limb or have a defective body part, and want to have it replaced.

I have to wonder if we'll eventually be able to own prosthetic limbs with built-in weaponry. With the appropriate permits, of course.

A common opinion I've seen is that a mechanical body would be superior to our organic bodies. This is true in some respects as we might be stronger, faster or decay slower. But don't forget, evolution has developed the near perfect bodies for us in our environment. Although we have changed our environment drastically, we are still reasonably well suited to it.

Engineering is full of compromises, that is undeniable and the natural bodies we have are also compromises, the only possible difference is that our natural bodies are geared towards efficiency, while engineered machines have their own priorities (e.g you may sacrifice efficiency in favour of strength). But would that be better, living with a stronger body, but requiring more energy, either from food or a power plant?

I don't think there are any changes we could make that wouldn't be a significant drain on resources like all other modern inventions, so the only people that will ever become cyborgs will be the result of disability/necessity.

f**k Jenson i just wonna be robo-cop

i think that mechanical replacements are just what they are ... e mechanical way to restore body damages.

But what damages can those mechanical parts do ?

I think that the only way to replace a damaged art is to clone a new 1, so you will have your arm/leg or whaterver, back just as before. Mechanicals have lots of problems that cloned stuff does not.

In addiction the human body have the potential to create a new totally functional missing part we just loose that "feature" after birth. The only think we must achieve is to restore that feature. And(based upon what i saw on some videos on the discovery channel) it seems that now it is possible !

I think that is the time we consider machines as machines and to start thinking that we need to make better humans.

Better machines will just turn humans into machines themselves, we are humas we need to become better humans !

Hmmm I did not listen too much to the story of cyborg, but can't help noticing Cameron Robinson is so hot!

I'm not crippled, but I've had some accidents that left me with a messed up right leg and right arm. The leg's not to bad, but the arm hurts all the time and just doesn't work as well as it should. So, I'd seriously consider getting that arm replaced with a cybernetic arm, as long as it performed better then the original organic one. The problem I'd have is there's more to an arm then picking up things, there's also the sense of touch. If they made it so I could still feel, have the sensation of actually touching things, with the cybernetic arm, then it would definitely be better then my current one.

Where did you get your t-shirt? :)

Fantastic show as always!

I'm fine with everything, if it improves our lives. If you don't want an augmentation because it's not pleasing to see, then it's not an augmentation for you and you shouldn't implant it.But if someone is fine with having "camera eye", then he should go for it.

I augmented my eyes through a laser to take away the weakness I was born with. I was nearsighted. Now I am perfectsighted :)

Personally I'm really looking forward to the day when we reach even a fraction of what's in Deus Ex. Me and my workmates discussed this very topic a few days ago. We were talking about sportsmen taking drugs to enhance their ability and where the line was. I brought up the prospect of exchanging your limbs for stronger, faster and more durable parts. I don't know if there are any laws against it yet but it would be possible to cut off your legs and replace 'em with prostetics that make you faster. What is then the difference between taking drugs to enhance your abilities and replacing your limbs for the very same purpose?

It's an really exciting time we live in. If our race could get their heads on straight and stop "bickering" I don't see why we can't have colonized space (among other things) by the end of our generation :)

And how can you talk about cyborgs and not even mention Ghost in the Shell? Makes me a really sad panda :(

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Humanity has not developed any technique capable of regenerating a single nerve or cure many musculoskeletal disorders such as tendinitis. In the case of insanity of human beings the idea of replacing healthy members for synthetic is more plausible than the technology to do this.

XX_DELTA_117_XX, the world is full of people with physical and mental disabilities can accomplish things that can shame the most healthy and "perfect" people. The only limit of the human body is having a lazy mind, closed and accommodated.