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Ultimately, in order to experience all the shit I have in mind, probably not before a couple hundred years. Not only do you have to consider the rate of technological advancement in the related fields, but also the cultural resistance. I guarantee when we start seeing consumer cybernetics on the horizon, you'll have plent of people like "that's not the body god gave you" and every hurdle that goes along with that type of shit. That's gonna take a long time though because they won't be worth buying if they're not upgrades, as opposed to just sub-par replacements for limbs we unwillingly parted with. But generally, I tend to think like what you say, yeah maybe when I'm like 85 I can at least get some decent external upgrades (limbs and eyes maybe) and some fun stuff like augmented reality, common smart phone functionalities just being a minor implant, and some purely aesthetic things.
I'll tell you what I know and I'll tell you what I think. What I know is that we already have several of the basic, fundamental concepts in reality already. Prosthetic legs like the ones Hugh Herr has, as well as many military people, are pretty functional. The feet can be swapped out for different modules and customized to serve more specific functions that just mocking feet. These legs also don't tire out, interviews with the members of the military that were using them said they themselves could get worn out while the legs could keep on going. There are also arms but arms aren't super great, the best ones still have pretty pitiful functionality in the hands, especially when it comes to individual fingers and quick reaction time, they are making progress though. Of course, these prosthetics have no feeling or feedback of any kind, BUT, another thing I know is that there have been synthetic materials that are thin, tough, and elastic like skin, but can "heal" back together when cut. There are also synthetic skin-like materials that are capable of interpereting data input like pressure changes and temperature changes and that sort of thing. I did eventually read that all aspects of both materials were eventually applied at once to one material, with the main intent being for use on burn victims and other situations that may involve skin grafting I guess. So on the tech side of things, these are important basics that need to be perfected, and are already out there being improved on beyond their original design. There are also ear implants that have made people who have lost their hearing able to hear again, and super shitty bionic eyes that are indeed capable of seeing, only in super low resolution black and white though.
Then you've also got the people in the basements coming up with fun things like finger magnets which allow you to sense electromagnetic fields. Not that high tech, but touching on the principle of being able to perceive something you once couldn't. There are individual biohackers/grinders working on stuffl ike this, and there are also official groups or companies I guess that do this, like Grindhouse Wetware, Cyborg Nest, and Dangerous Things. You've got implantable nfc chips for easy data transferiing, for like replacing keys, sharing contact info, etc... An infrared sensor that works with the neodymium magnet to allow you to "feel" the room i.e. walk while blind or with your eyes closed. An implant that monitors biological data like pulse, body temperature, blood pressure and all that jazz, which can be charged wirelessly and uses bluetooth to connect to a device so you can read said data. There's an implant for your chest that gives feedback so you always know where north is. Neil Harbisson (one of the founders of Cyborg Nest) has an antenna in his skull that can interpret different colors as different pitches in audio, because he is colorblind. There's also some lady associated with him who has sensors in her body that react to seismographs around the world that are connected to the internet so she can be internall aware of seismographic activity going on around the globe at a moments notice, as long as there's wifi nearby... So those are examples of less obvious ideas that are more about moving beyond what we can do or experience has default humans, as opposed to replacing or improving on aspects of our anatomy that already exist.
So seeing as how this stuff already exists, it's pretty easy for me to think we'll get somewhere substantial within the next 100 years. These things are real right now, and when humans invent things they odn't just say "oh look it exists now, let's call it good." No, they improve on it over and over until it's irrelevant or not able to be upgraded anymore. So we'll definitely get there. I have absolutely no idea how soon stuff will be affordable to the general public though. A lot of shit can go down in that time economically, socially, whatever, so maybe it'll be even harder than we think for civilians to get their hands on this shit, or even easier that we would have ever guessed. Idk and I don't care because it's a worth while pursuit. If magnets can allow us to perceive magnetic fields, an aspect of nature previously not part of our experience, that's a tiny step towards bringing us more in tune with the universe on a more intimate level. Next thing is eyes that can percieve ALL frequences of light, zoom in, and not hurt because bright. Also ears that can hear all the frequencies. It goes on... We'll probably have to modify our brains to be able to even handle all of this stimuli, and probably require the option to turn off the non-default features at any moment.
The other thing is, people are vain. If they can buy a skinny waist, or perhaps even a waist or other body part that's branded by some celebrity or even a replica of some celebrity's body part, people will eat that shit up. This is not accounting for any resistence to the tech on a social level or anything of course. But the fact that something would make money is incentive enough for people to design it once it's efficient enough to build the shit. Also, instead of beauty, it can also be utilized for functionality. Some employees already use those ugly ass exo-skeletons to do work that their plain human bodies can't do. It's nice to have the lack of limits a machine has, with the mind and dexterity of a human, this will only advance through time and I think that will make it desireable, and therefor something that someone will pursue. Another reason why I think there may be enough of a drive for this stuff to have some of it around within the next 100 years. I'm not trying to say these are the best or most wholesome reasons, but they are reasons.
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