When I go shopping for transhumanist enhancements, these items will be on the top of my list. As more futuristic innovations arrive, I’ll add additional enhancements.
...
Complete entry
Posted by
Pastor_Alex on 07/05 at 11:06 AM
I would imagine that the trade off for 20/15 vision for golf would be the need for reading glasses for close up things. I have a friend whose eyesight is like this. He can see a deer a mile away, but without his glasses he can’t see the food he is eating. I’m thinking contact lenses or even glasses with a zoom function would be very cool and leave you with both near and far vision. While we are at it, I would love to have the ability to add infra red to my vision for walking home at night through the woods.
There are a bunch of genes that if we could control when and how much they responded would give us better control of our health. It is the knowledge and technology to turn the activity of the gene on and off that is needed.
I like the LED tat. I’ve seen the ones that fluoresce under black lights and they’re cool as well. My question while watching the video was whether these would be ‘installed’ like other tats or would the process be more surgical? Maybe a combination of LED tat technology and nanotech would give us completely programmable tattoos.
I like the idea of the google glasses, though what I’d be looking for would be the ability to store and recall faces and names. I’d never forget a name again!
These are all neat, and as you said pretty much achievable now.
Posted by
Jønathan Lyons on 07/06 at 08:40 AM
Hey Pastor_Alex!
As I understand it, the better-than-20/20 vision resulting from Lasik wouldn’t be any more limiting than any other Lasik procedure - though I admit that I think this mostly because I’ve never heard of the issue with up-close vision you mention as a concern.
I’d love contacts or some other upgrade that would allow me to see further into the spectrum, as well, beyond what unaugmented humans can see.
The gene therapies are extrapolations from what’s known and available - reasonable extrapolations, I hope.
The LED tats, as I understand them, come in two flavors, both surgically installed. One, the one envisioned in the video, would run via a fuel cell that would attach to a blood vessel and extract blood sugar for its energy. The other, while currently illegal in the U.S., uses a magnetic implant, which allows one to charge it through the skin.
Thanks much!
IEET Blog