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submitted 7 months ago by dipcart@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

I don't have a problem with cybernetic augmentation, I mostly would have a problem with the state of technology companies. I likely wouldn't choose to get any because I would not be able to trust them. However, if I could get any sorta (relatively) basic augmentation, it would be built in headphones. Like to just be able to "hear" music and podcasts and audiobooks. My focus wouldn't even be upgraded hearing or anything.

So do y'all have any similar quality of life augmentations you would want?

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[-] wuphysics87@lemmy.ml 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Parallel processing. Sometimes when speaking or thinking, something comes to mind which is related but presents a fork. It would be cool to chase both branches

[-] Arehandoro@lemmy.ml 5 points 7 months ago

A cortical stack that allows me to upload my brain to a computer, and make back ups or forks of myself.

[-] PoolloverNathan@programming.dev 3 points 7 months ago

Maybe store project-related stuff in a subdirectory of the project repo, and make everyone on the team get that so I can finally read the other guy's code.

[-] SoulWager@lemmy.ml 5 points 7 months ago

I also have some trust issues. I'd rather not have spyware built into me.

That said if I could magically wave those problems away, I wouldn't say no to improved senses. Eyes that can see any wavelength from radio to x-rays, with different filters for wavelength and polarization available. Same for ears too.

I have actually considered(but not super seriously) getting a magnet implant so I could detect magnetic fields and current flowing in wires, what do you think the limit of that would be if you took it to an extreme?

Mental augmentations are a bit scarier. For multiple reasons.

[-] TribblesBestFriend@startrek.website 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Right now my tinnitus is killing me soooo CyberEars … but if they comes with a subscriptions I’ll support my old one

[-] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 4 points 7 months ago

Full cyborgisation. Just not one made by any capitalist entity.

[-] SilentStorms@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 7 months ago

I really want some of the existing NFC and LED implants that are available, but I keep putting it off because I’m a bit squeamish about installing it myself and no professional service is near me.

[-] nitefox@sh.itjust.works 3 points 7 months ago

None cause if I have to blast all the synths out there I don’t wanna lose pieces or, worse yet, die

[-] Zero22xx 3 points 7 months ago

I used to think a future with cyborgs would be pretty cool but personally, I'm not so hot on the idea anymore. The problem is that you would be beholden to whichever corporation or government manufactures and pays for parts. And who is to say that the support for whichever product that you've surgically implanted will be for life, and that you won't end up with useless landfill electronics sewed up inside of you.

Personally I think that if AI was ever made with altruistic purposes, that could fill the role of things like complex calculations and extra memory or a log. And good Augmented Reality could fill the role of interacting directly with entertainment and blocking out the outside world. And maybe one day there would be effective ways of interacting directly with computers through electrodes or even wirelessly. Although who knows how our privacy would be invaded then. There could be literal thought police in that case.

The problem is that the tech will always come from someone else. Imagine integrating this kind of tech into your life on such a deep level and then the person in charge of over seeing and maintaining this tech turns out to be an authoritarian nazi.

[-] ReakDuck@lemmy.ml 4 points 7 months ago

You mean like our real-life situation with Neuralink and the new Nazi called Elon Musk?

[-] zigzag@lemmus.org 3 points 7 months ago

A monkeys tail! Third hand, balancing, grabbing, etc.

[-] BreadOven@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

A magnum dong to go with my magnum condoms.

[-] VirusMaster3073@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago
[-] Jarix@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

Similar to this, or perhaps in obtaining it, perfect memory recall and retention

[-] TransSynthesist 2 points 7 months ago

I want to give birth to our techno overlord's robot babies.

[-] lattrommi@lemmy.ml 2 points 7 months ago

a pair of working wings like a bat, a prehensile tail like a monkey that is strong enough to pick stuff up equally as my arms can, skin like a chameleon that can transition to the color and texture (visually) of my surroundings and regenerative cells like those immortal octopuses.

that's just for regular life, my ultimate fantasy version would have all that but also an improved ass, that sits in an office chair more comfortably so i can write TPS reports more efficiently and with better clarity.

[-] BackwardsUntoDawn@lemm.ee 2 points 7 months ago

joints that don't wear down over time

[-] HotCoffee@lemm.ee 2 points 7 months ago

A brainchip would be amazing. But realistically no corporation should be in your head.

This would enable real life language translation, internet functions, scanning, a hud of vitals etc.

[-] TacoButtPlug@sh.itjust.works 2 points 7 months ago

Cyborg butthole

[-] MrSilkworm@lemmy.ml 2 points 7 months ago

Not in order but I would like to have Bionic sight Bionic hearing Bionic joints Bionic smell Bionic sleep regulator Bionic metabolism regulator and a bionic muscle regulator

[-] yool_ooloo@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

Some kind of general pain suppression.

You could turn it off, if you're into that and sometimes pain let's you know there might be a problem, but the endless agony people go through would end.

[-] FiveFingerDisco@lemm.ee 1 points 7 months ago

throws Shadowrun 2 street samurai catalog on table

This.

[-] TheGuyTM3@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 months ago

I would want a body pocket of at least 100 cm³, some volume controler for ears, and (personnal interest) a fully engineerable right eye

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