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Do you mean something like what was shown in SouthPark - like Humansentipad?

Or do you mean something like Deus Ex HR?
I really don't know what u mean.

as we do not really have such things now.

I mean all general references, Deus Ex HR, and real life. Although I have found that game to be disturbingly like real life, at least, the motives and morals. Anyway, I mean every thing, new eyes, fake limbs, internal phones etc etc.

It would be nice if they advance the new leg/arm thing so people with no arm or leg aren't as disabled as I see.

We're only at the begin of cyber technology and even if some problems can occur in the future(Like Deux Ex shows it), I don't understand how we could be against it. I mean, give an arm or a leg to a disabled person, it's like give him a new life.

So I'm PRO

Yes, but people giving up their arms, legs, EYEBALLS and having to take drugs otherwise their body rejects the implants is kinda sick, but I don't think that'll happen.
I think it should only be for disabled people.

Yes, but people giving up their arms, legs, EYEBALLS and having to take drugs otherwise their body rejects the implants is kinda sick, but I don't think that'll happen.

If we can make efficient cybernetic arms and legs and other stuff... I think the rejection will be just an other "little" issue to be solved.

Pro: cybernetic implants especially for limbs are getting better and better, it offers a new hope to those either born without or having lost a limb. Also, in the near future I'm sure blind and deaf people will be able to get implants giving them their senses back, at least to a certain grade, and with improving technology, maybe even improved (though that's a bit utopic for now... it will cost a lot at first)

Con: the same con with almost all technological improvement; misuse, overuse, malfunctions, loss of private sphere, military use, safety risks, and so on.

Question: I never thought all that much about it, but since some of you talk about rejections, do cybernetic prostheses really get rejected that often? Normally it happen because your body rejects a foreign tissue, so an organic replacement; do artificial limbs trigger a similar reactions too, and why?

Yes, but people giving up their arms, legs, EYEBALLS and having to take drugs otherwise their body rejects the implants is kinda sick, but I don't think that'll happen.

No, the corporations who will undoubtedly spring up and manufacture the implants will make like this. Greed. No company will sell something like life-saving robo limbs without a catch. You'll notice this in like Deus Ex, but where do you think that idea came from? It's in humanity to do something like make the body reject the implants so they can sell drugs and get rich.

Question: I never thought all that much about it, but since some of you talk about rejections, do cybernetic prostheses really get rejected that often? Normally it happen because your body rejects a foreign tissue, so an organic replacement; do artificial limbs trigger a similar reactions too, and why?