The Cyborg menace
In science fiction there are several types of Cyborgs:
The Terminator/Screamers variant, all robot with artificial organic skin.
There is the Bionic kind, humans with robotic limbs and other body parts.
The Evil kind, human cyborgs that have lost their humanity: the Borg, Cybermen.
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| This is how I envisioned the future at the tender age of 15 |
It is good that people that loose limbs get robotic replacements, there are currently artificial legs that make the bearers run faster than people with all limbs. Robot arms are now able to pick up small objects with good precision. This is all good, but when the artificial body parts star to surpass human limbs trouble starts. 15-20 years in the future we will have hundreds if not thousands of 6 million dollar people running around. Will they be alienated by humans? Will they feel superior and distance themselves from us? Who would not want a sweet sweet robot arm like the one Will smith got in I am robot? In the long haul will people be happy with the replaced limb or will they crave more and slowly turn against humans and a Borg/Cybermen situation arise?
Lets just hope this does not happen:
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