This reminds me of Half-Life 2 with all the mods you can give your character. I know a lot of people freak when they think about stuff like that, but I see it as a marvelous thing. I'm fairly confident that headjack-interface computers ala The Matrix and modifications through nanotechnology will be created in my lifetime.
People laugh in my face when I bring headjack-interface computers up until I tell them about how far our species has advanced technologically. In the year 1900 if you told people about planes like Concorde they'd laugh straight in your face! Also, you'd be branded a lunatic if you spoke of things such as the Internet, organ transplants, a successful manned voyage to the Moon, microwave ovens, and plasma T.V.s but all of these things have happened. We've been flying for a little over a century, have had T.V. for less than 6 decades, and have had mainstream access to the 'Net for less than 2. Head-jack computers are not that farcical. Also, with the power of computers doubling in under 2 years, the power of a computer will be massive and exponentially increased compared to the primitive things we are using now. Nanotechnology is already being utilized and will only gain more power and usage as the years go by. Not only that, genetic modification WILL be used on humans, first to weed out deformities and then to give humans special abilities and enhanced traits. They've done it to other animals and plants, who is to say they won't do it to humans? Its already possible to do in vitro fertilization and choose the sex of your child and it won't be long until other traits are available. Imagine a doctor saying something like "Want a stocky, black-haired kid with an I.Q. through the roof and eyes like a hawk? Coming right up, Mr. and Mrs. Smith." Now relaize that something like that will most likely occur before the end of the century.
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I wanna have El Scrabino's man babies.
Last edited by Statikk HDM; 02-25-2004 at 10:55 AM..
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