The world is a horrifying place.
Botflies are scary. Thankfully, the kind that uses humans as an incubator don't live where I do. I saw a show once where a guy infected himself with their larvae on purpose. Sick ****.
That's why I'd prefer a robotic body to this fleshy one. The only 'parasite' I'd have to worry about is malicious software.
Well, depending upon your build, you may have to worry about your peripherals. I mean, sure everyone wants that extra laser, right? But how many do you need? Keepin' that sucker charged is a serious power drain. To avoid this, do your research and don't let the body dealer con you into getting anything you don't need. They profit and you suffer with poor performance.
That's why I am waiting for a feasible option to include a nuclear fusion engine as my power supply. Until then I'll have to settle with a meger basic build; at least I won't have a fleshy body holding back my ambitions.
That's why I am waiting for a feasible option to include a nuclear fusion engine as my power supply. Until then I'll have to settle with a meger basic build; at least I won't have a fleshy body holding back my ambitions.
Nope, just your monthly visits to your mechanic.
Until robots can have orgasms I'll stick with the flesh-and-blood body, thanks.
I hear that a full smoothly running pipeline is almost as good.
As long as the mechanic is a fellow robot. I wouldn't be able to trust you meat-sacks as you might have me reprogramed or worse.
And a robot doesn't need an orgasm, what with all the nuts and other objects that have a sexual meaning to them. One orgasm would make me fall to pieces and what good is a mechanical body that can't hold itself together...
That's why I am waiting for a feasible option to include a nuclear fusion engine as my power supply. Until then I'll have to settle with a meger basic build; at least I won't have a fleshy body holding back my ambitions.
Then time is your parasite. Until a suitable engine is created, it will eat your ambition.
Yeah, an orgasm for a robot is more accurately termed 'catastrophic hydraulics failure'. Not a good thing.
"Catastrophic hydraulics success", more like.
"Catastrophic hydraulics success", more like.
Point, sir. Point indeed.
About two weeks after that it will be adapted to show porn.
Well we do already have mechanical devices (such as pacemakers) which while being clock-like are not clocks. We do tend to adapt to needs. I figure the first major commercial personal implantation device (not including RFID emitters used as IDs to enter clubs in Europe) will probably something akin to an iPod or iPhone. So we will have built-in DRM before anything else. Then when the DRM is broken in 2 weeks, we'll get the porn.
That sounds really complicated. Screwing with the inner ear or the brain (whichever method you choose to deliver the sensation of listening to music) seems a lot riskier and more complicated than grafting some chromataphors to the inside of a person's eyelids. Since crustacean color changing completely bypasses the brain (skin cells react directly to visual stimuli from the eyes), any chimp could isolate the trigger for octopus camouflage and rig it to react to a simple timekeeper like a pacemaker.
Duh.
Actually, I think it is inevitable that mankind will become somewhat bionic in the future. Imagine the world, years from now, where people will have all kinds of electronic devices, everyone of them infected with malware and popup ads...kind of brings tears to my eyes (Tears brought to you by Visine...it gets the red out)...
Sir, what you are describing has a name. It is called the Technological Singularity, and it will be beautiful.
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He received a panicked e-mail from a doctor in Scotland, along with photographs of an enormous worm, as long as a man's arm. The doctor had extracted the worm from a woman's vagina, where it had been causing her the unbelievable pain and bleeding that had brought her to the emergency room. The doctor was at a total loss to identify the worm, as he could not find anything about a vaginal parasitic worm of this size in any text, and the damage it had done to her was so extreme it seemed very difficult to believe that it had gone unnoticed all this time. The parasitologist did not recognize the worm either, and could only say that it was definitely not a tropical species. He circulated the photograph around the department but nobody recognized it, so he began sending it to people who study others types of parasites. He received a reply eventually from the agricultural studies department, where a man who specialized in animal husbandry suggested that the woman was probably infected by her husband.
"How do you know?" asked the parasitologist.
"Because," said the husbandman, "this worm grows only in the intestinal tract of sheep."
"How do you know?" asked the parasitologist.
"Because," said the husbandman, "this worm grows only in the intestinal tract of sheep."
Technological Singularity is a beautiful thing. Knowing that AI machines will one day surpass humans and eventually enslave the fleshbags, I opt to be on the winning side. The only down side is that I won't have a great big bushy beard...
I imagine that the first electronic device that will be electively implanted by a large segment of the population will be a clock. Clocks always precede other advancements in portability by decades or even centuries, and the clock is always the first supplementary function grafted onto new devices. I imagine the way it will work is that when you blink you will get a flash of a digital time display.
About two weeks after that it will be adapted to show porn.
Looks like I'll be signing up for this ... about two weeks after it becomes available.
