Allow me to start by saying, I agree with Gryphon on the technical explanation. I am not going to get into a metaphysical discussion about the human body and soul.

>I believe that functional cyberware will never enter the
>public/private domain. Not for technological reasons, but instead for
>sociopolitical reasons...
>we're too human to improve ourselves in logical, technologically
>advanced methods.

What is "logical, techonologically advanced methods"? Humans are curious. Most the curious end up dead, but the lucky few do something -- add to the 5000 year dialogue -- and advance our technology in fits and starts with a pattern that is on the surface choatic and in reality organized.

You have to note that Gryphon has speculated that early adapters of bioware will have really terrible ends. He's probably right. Pioneers usually do. The rest of us learn from their mistakes and make progress eratically.

Doubt me? Check out the industrial revolution. Can anyone claim that we "modernized" in a orderly fashion? That is was clean and neat? Can any one claim that it didn't happen? We advance imperfectly, yet we still addvance.

Your logic suggests that the following would be true:

Men do not have wings, ergo men will not fly.

Machines cause polution, ergo men will not use machines.

Artifical limbs are poor replacements for flesh and blood, ergo no one will use artifical limbs.

But we have, haven't we? And Bioware is coming...unless something cataclysmic happens.

>my proof? look at the problems faced with early _iron_ plows. even
>that was considered "evil" for quite some time.

Gailieo was banned by the church. Hell, _printing books_ was banned by the Catholic Church. Hmmm. Doesn't seem realistic to belive that politics will stop the advancement of knowledge. Notice how hard everyone in the middle ages (or even the the cold war) tried to ignore scientific knowledge publically...and then funded it privately? Politics will cause our states to complete...and to discover if bioware is an adavantage to their security and pocket books.

>cyberware. Filed under the "I wish, but not likely in my lifetime"
>category.

It will happen. It has happened. Wearables are just the start.

yours,
t.

Trigger Argee
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