Posts Tagged ‘transhumanism’
The Divide
June 10th, 2008
“Did you see the news today?” Jan asked me, with that look on her face that told me whatever it was, she didn’t like it.
“No, why?”
“They’ve just invented a robotic human brain, it’s the last organ to be cracked, so now you can build a whole human from robotic organs.”
“Wow, you’d never make a mistake, think how useful that’d be, bet it’s expensive.”
“It’s like all the other robotic organs, only the richest can get them. You know I read a piece in the paper the other day, it’s reckoned that 99.8% of the worlds wealth is in the hands of people who are between 85 to 97% robots. This new brain will push that number even higher, maybe up to 100% in some cases.”
“So they’ll be living longer and be less prone to mistakes. Tony at work reckons they can communicate in way we don’t know about. I have to say that even though I always thought the world would get taken over by robots, I never really thought it’d be quite like this.”
by Russell Ruffino
Tags: body modification, class warfare, cybernetics, organs, robots, transhumanism, upgrades
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“Have you been injured since we became…what we are?”
“A couple of times. Why?”
“What did it feel like?”
“Painful.”
“No I meant as they repaired you.”
“Well, the first time, I was in a major car accident and my skull was crushed against the steering wheel. I can remember thinking to myself that I was dead. Of course the fact I was thinking anything meant I wasn’t.”
“Of course. But how did it feel?”
“After a moment the pain began to clear and I realized the little buggers must be keeping me alive. I could feel my skull being shifted back into place and this awful grating feeling as the bones knited back together. At the time I wished I was dead.”
“And they fixed you right up?”
“Yeah. As my vision came back I realized I must have lost an eye in the accident.”
“How could you tell?”
“I could see my old eye on the floor of the car. Mashed into the mat.”
“My god. I’m glad nothing that gruesome happened to me.”
“Yeah. Sometimes I wish I’d died.”
by David B
Tags: cloning, immortality, transhumanism, upgrades
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A Saijo City based short story.
The last thing Commons saw before the concussion wave hit was code he’d been focussed on writing for the last several days. Then there was nothing but the high pitched ringing. The only sensation was horrific pain caused by the rebar which had entered the back of his neck, pierced his vertebrae & now protruded 3 feet from the front of his throat. His body tingled, like the pain from a sleeping limb waking but throughout every inch of his flesh.
Everything faded out.
Commons woke to florescents & digital beeping. A fuzzy figure floating over him rezzed in slowly, morphing into a very attractive pale woman’s face.
‘Hi there, I’m Dr. Slade. You’ve been out four days now. We had to rebuild your neck & amp up your torso to support the upgrades. It may feel weird at first but you can try standing now.’
He followed her directions, feeling an abnormal fluidity to his movements. He’d expected stiffness but his joints worked better than ever.
Then he saw his new neck in the mirror.
Just what he’d always wanted.
by E. T. Chevalier
Tags: cybernetics, transhumanism, upgrades
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