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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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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month 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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

A magnum dong to go with my magnum condoms.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

throws Shadowrun 2 street samurai catalog on table

This.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month 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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month 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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Cyborg butthole

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

joints that don't wear down over time

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month 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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Active noise cancelling for this fucking tinnitus would be a godsend

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Mechanical β€œeyes” that correct my vision.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

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

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

You only see greyscale? O_o

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Fancy skin wishlist:

  • No drying and flaking
  • No sweaty palms
  • No hangnails
  • Impenetrable by mosquitos
  • Immunity to paper cuts
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Are we talking volume or velocity

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

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

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Typing in integrals gets old rather quickly

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

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

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