Cybernetics and Bioengineering: what are YOUR limits?

[Sociotard]

Re: Cybernetics and Bioengineering: what are YOUR limits?

 

Japanese cyberware stillsuit implants!

 

http://www.fastcoexist.com/1680003/the-water-bottle-of-the-future-a-cyborg-system-that-keeps-you-from-needing-to-drink#10

 

The Japanese design studio Takram was asked to design a water bottle for people to use after a hypothetical future environmental disaster. Takram, imagining what a world would be like with rising sea levels and radioactive disasters, thought that we probably wouldn’t be carrying around water bottles. Instead, they designed an entirely new organ system, to be implanted in the body, that would mean we used less water in the first place.

 

Its solution, called the Hydrolemic System, involves both harvesting more moisture from the air than our current un-modified bodies are capable of, and also doing more to retain the water we have. The company imagines that system would require us to drink 0.1 cups of water a day.

 

 

Inserts that go in our noses convert moisture in the air we breath into water, and other inserts at the ends of our renal and digestive systems keep water from leaving by those routes. A collar on our neck helps prevent perspiration by turning our body heat into electricity, so it doesn’t make us perspire, losing precious liquid.

[bigbywolfe]

Re: Cybernetics and Bioengineering: what are YOUR limits?

 

Hell, I'd get that just for the "reducing sweat" bit...

[Christopher]

Re: Cybernetics and Bioengineering: what are YOUR limits?

 

Once upon a time, there were Cyborg kitties:

http://survivingtheworld.net/Lesson1420.html

 

Story on Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acoustic_Kitty

[Lawnmower Boy]

Re: Cybernetics and Bioengineering: what are YOUR limits?

 

That's because the planet is mostly controlled by old men who don't really expect to live long enough to reap the benefit of a twenty year project. Once clinical immortality enters the picture things will (hopefully) change when it comes to human short sightedness.

 

Attached is a picture of a vinyard on the Narramata Bench near Penticton, B. C, scraped from www.bcwineries.com (Book your B.C. wine tour vacation now!) Vines are ten year-plus investment. So are olive trees, apples, dates, figs, probably tea and mulberries....

 

And yet old men have been investing in them for thousands of years. The old proverb has it that you plant olive trees for your grandchildren. It's true, and the shelves of your local supermarket will demonstrate that people do it. A lot.

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[megaplayboy]

Re: Cybernetics and Bioengineering: what are YOUR limits?

 

If you have clinical immortality, though, that will wreak havoc with the inheritance/estate system. You can't inherit the estate if the holder never dies. Young people (or relatively younger people) could wind up frozen out of positions of power, wealth, etc.

[McCoy]

Re: Cybernetics and Bioengineering: what are YOUR limits?

 

Attached is a picture of a vinyard on the Narramata Bench near Penticton' date=' B. C, scraped from www.bcwineries.com (Book your B.C. wine tour vacation now!) Vines are ten year-plus investment. So are olive trees, apples, dates, figs, probably tea and mulberries....

 

And yet old men have been investing in them for thousands of years. The old proverb has it that you plant olive trees for your grandchildren. It's true, and the shelves of your local supermarket will demonstrate that people do it. A lot.

I would say more that people did (past tense) it a lot. Improved their own piece of ground that they intended their children and grandchildren to benefit from. How many vineyards and olive groves have been public works projects?