The Bionic Maaaaan~

Nothing new. Just a reminder of where we're headed. I'm sure we're in for a world of ethical warfare when cybernetics, genetics, and other technologies enter the mainstream. No doubt about that.

But I'm not dumb enough to think this kind of stuff is new by a long shot, though. I just think those who've made the major discoveries with it are being kept in secrecy and under control, for either ethical reasons or by those who wish to use them for their own gain and are waiting for the right time and avenue to bring about their use.

I'm not talking about conspiracy drivel here, I'm just saying if you made a potentially world-changing technological discovery, would you be so keen on letting it out before you could properly secure control, rights, and use of it? At least, that's what I think is what's going on.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

It's significance is not specifically so much about who it can help, but whom it can empower. Think of military applications, for example: If you could replace human eyes with IR cameras, use robotic limbs instead of flesh, or hell, even take a brain completely out of a body and operate it by remote (or simply use RC infantry altogether)... but that's a bit down the road. This stuff will be big, when it comes to fruition.

And brains are complex, but I have no reason to believe we won't start seeing prototype medical technology for 'patching' missing or damaged portions of a person's neuralogy in the coming years. Even people disabled on that end might stand a chance eventually.

There's nowhere I can't reach.