Posted on 02/02/2018 6:56:59 AM PST by C19fan
YOUR entire body could be swapped out with robot parts as soon as 2070, if a top robotics expert is to be believed.
One bionics expert says that we're not far from a future where anyone can buy upgraded body parts that provide superhuman powers.
(Excerpt) Read more at thesun.co.uk ...
At 117 I’ll need a kick-start.....
Then the term ‘parts dept’ will have a whole new meaning.
No it can’t, because I’ll never make 118. 8>)
How to pay for the expensive robot body: You can a robot laborer, doomed to live in a body that is infinitely replaceable while being fed the right endorphins and hormones to keeps you from minding your new existence as a walking piece of factory machinery.
“I will be 110. I could use some upgrades now. How do we speed this up?”
Not everything will suddenly appear in 2070 - some parts will be available earlier (provided that civilization still exists then). Some parts we’ll be able to replace with our own cells - I expect to be able to clone a heart, liver, kidneys and other organs from my own tissue by 2035 or 2040. So the trick is to stay alive until such time as you can begin to really take advantage of this technology. Stay (or get back in) shape, eat better, reduce stress, etc. The same old same old, but now it really matters because there’s that light at the end of the tunnel (or so we hope). Hey, even if we can’t live forever, taking better care of ourselves will lead to a longer healthspan. 80 will be the new 60 in not too many years.
“Steely Dan” lives.
These days the $6 million dollar man couldn’t buy an arm for $6 million.
“In past 5 years, both hips, plate with 12 screws in ankle and titanium spacer with 4 screws in my neck.
I am on my way.”
BOL! My wife and I have a lot of metal in various parts of our bodies.
I had a major realignment surgery on my left foot. Xrays look like a weekend ad for Ace Hardware for stainless steel parts.
On two separate falls my wife ended up with screws and plates in a shoulder and her wrist.
A couple of years ago, we went to a high school football game at Levi Stadium. We had to go through a metal detection system and set off alarms. They hand wanded my wife’s shoulder and wrist and let her go through. I had to take off
my shoe and socks. Then, they passed the wand over my bare foot, and it went crazy.
We told the security guards that we were the new bionic senor citizens.
One of our 50 younger adults has metal in both shoulders and and one foot and ankle. His company pays for first class flights and he has minimal problems except when he flies SW.
While in the security line, he takes of his shirt, shoes and socks and warns the TSA guys to plug their ears when he goes through the metal detector. If he has time he will play around with them. If not, he has x-rays and signed documentation by his orthopod confirming his bionic parts.
yea saw 2001 and still no d*** moon bases or Pan Am shuttles to the moon
But again I’m still waiting for my flying car i was Promised back in 50’s sifi
I’ll even take the hoverboard from back the future 2 that were supposed to a commons kids toys by 2015
. . .but do I also get that snazzy orange tracksuit ??? (grin)
I’d be 122 by then. I would pass anyway. I actually look forward to no longer having to live on the same planet with brainless filthy libs — and I hate paying taxes. ;>)
Hillary is first on the list.
She also wants a self driving Scooby Van.
Pay cash for the replacement parts; don’t finance...A cautionary tale...
Repo Man: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1053424/
Takes care of swimming...
I dunno, they said we’d have flying cars by now in the fifties.
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