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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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[–] yool_ooloo@lemmy.world 1 points 2 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.

[–] zigzag@lemmus.org 3 points 2 months ago

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

[–] VirusMaster3073@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] Jarix@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

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

[–] BreadOven@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

A magnum dong to go with my magnum condoms.

[–] FiveFingerDisco@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago

throws Shadowrun 2 street samurai catalog on table

This.

[–] janus2@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 months ago

arms. hate my current arms and could greatly benefit from sci fi ones

[–] Zero22xx@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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 3 points 2 months ago

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

[–] TheGuyTM3@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago

I would want a body pocket of at least 100 cmΒ³, some volume controler for ears, and (personnal interest) a fully engineerable right eye

[–] TacoButtPlug@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago

Cyborg butthole

[–] HotCoffee@lemm.ee 2 points 2 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.

[–] BackwardsUntoDawn@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago

joints that don't wear down over time

[–] monovergent@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Volume control for the ears, with equalizer, decibel normalizer, and active noise cancelling.

[–] Psythik@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago

As someone with misophonia, this is the one augment that will have me standing in line to be among the first to sign up. I would love nothing more than to be able to mute my girlfriend's annoying birds and their stupid repetitive screaming.

All those features you mentioned, plus the ability to focus my ears on specific sounds while eliminating the rest. Sign me the fuck up.

[–] Grapho@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 months ago

Active noise cancelling for this fucking tinnitus would be a godsend

[–] HipsterTenZero@dormi.zone 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Improved eye (singular), a second thumb on right hand, internal physical storage, modular left arm with power tool extensions, a nose and jawline that are very clearly technological but don't do anything else, and a set of integrated wheelies

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 7 points 2 months ago

Mechanical β€œeyes” that correct my vision.

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

[–] nitefox@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago

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

[–] PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I wanna see the hype about regular colour. I’ve got red green blue yellow colourblindness. I wanna see how things are meant to be coloured.

[–] Krik@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 months ago

You only see greyscale? O_o

[–] Elaine@lemm.ee 12 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

New skin. It doesn’t need to be fancy, just no more scars and a better fit.

[–] monovergent@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 months ago

Fancy skin wishlist:

  • No drying and flaking
  • No sweaty palms
  • No hangnails
  • Impenetrable by mosquitos
  • Immunity to paper cuts
[–] nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] dipcart@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Are we talking volume or velocity

[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] dipcart@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

Is your tolerance upgraded as well or is this a mutually assured destruction situation

[–] cheesymoonshadow@lemmings.world 12 points 2 months ago

I've often wished for a searchable brain. No more not being able to think of that thing or someone's name or what exactly happened when.

[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago

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

[–] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

A math coprocessor would be nice. Ability to instantly know the answer to equations I see, and ability to do large calculations in my head.

Also, some sort of interface port where I could upload skills or information, matrix-style. And it would have to be a physical port, no fucking way I'd want that available wirelessly.

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Where would that be a significant upgrade over entering the numbers on a calculator?

[–] monovergent@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago

Typing in integrals gets old rather quickly

[–] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago

No time-delay for inputting the numbers, ability to process any calculation (which calculators can't), and no need to carry an actual calculator around.

Ability to any calculations in my head at all would be nice, now that I think about it.

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