“If you had to pick an optimal human to machine cyborg ratio, what would it be and why?”
[looks at self] Being one, I'm not quite sure how one computes that ratio.
What's more important is how the mix leverages one's self to an advantage. I can't engage in certain activities lest I risk terminal disconnection of electromechanical components ... but installation of those same components prevented early cessation of the wholly 100% human configuration, and at least once since have, by happenstance, made the difference between racing to the ER by ambulance vs. walking in at my convenience and tolerating pre-surgery delays. The ability to do periodic data dumps on biosystem performance has also been everything from amusing to critical.
At this point of technology, I wouldn't recommend purely voluntary installation of machine parts, but if there's a good reason to get them then embrace the options fully.
BTW: battery replacement sucks. Yes, it's done the hard way. No, wireless/inductive recharging isn't reliable/durable enough to be viable.
Does the mechanical augmentation need to be necessarily electrical, though? Aren't glasses also applicable? What about prosthetics? Even canes and crutches?
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“If you had to pick an optimal human to machine cyborg ratio, what would it be and why?”
[looks at self] Being one, I'm not quite sure how one computes that ratio.
What's more important is how the mix leverages one's self to an advantage. I can't engage in certain activities lest I risk terminal disconnection of electromechanical components ... but installation of those same components prevented early cessation of the wholly 100% human configuration, and at least once since have, by happenstance, made the difference between racing to the ER by ambulance vs. walking in at my convenience and tolerating pre-surgery delays. The ability to do periodic data dumps on biosystem performance has also been everything from amusing to critical.
At this point of technology, I wouldn't recommend purely voluntary installation of machine parts, but if there's a good reason to get them then embrace the options fully.
BTW: battery replacement sucks. Yes, it's done the hard way. No, wireless/inductive recharging isn't reliable/durable enough to be viable.
What part of you is non-biological?
Judging by the fact it has a battery, i'd suspect an insulin apparatus or a pace maker.
Does the mechanical augmentation need to be necessarily electrical, though? Aren't glasses also applicable? What about prosthetics? Even canes and crutches?
Well, we were talking about cyborgs. Hard to be cybernetic without also being electrical.
He describes his pacemaker here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3735443