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"Defman, defman uber alles..."
Where 'Gattaca' depicted a society stratified by genetic enhancement, this current little thread appears to be touting stratification by prosthetic enhancement. (I once read a sf novel which described just this sort of thing. Can't remember the name, though).
Oddly enough, the notion is a fraction less repellent to me than gene splicing. Maybe it's the choice involved, or maybe it just needs the Ethan Hawke treatment?
Posted by: Tony Fisk | June 13, 2007 6:14 PM
I'm proud to say that I was a fan of Jamais Cascio before his face appeared on BoingBoing! ;)
Posted by: Michael Anissimov | June 13, 2007 8:05 PM
I knew Jamais before he was a cyborg!
Posted by: Howard Berkey | June 13, 2007 9:20 PM
Nyahhh, go back to the factory ya cybie scum! We don't want your kind clanking and sparking around here!
Posted by: Stefan Jones | June 13, 2007 10:44 PM
Corroboration: isn't Kylie Minogue appearing as a cyber woman in the next series of Dr. Who?
Posted by: Tony Fisk | June 14, 2007 12:20 AM
One can only hope.
Posted by: Howard Berkey | June 14, 2007 10:11 PM
We are all cyborgs and have been for centuries. If you wear shoes (foot augmentation), clothing (skin augmentation) or read books (memory augmentation), you're a cyborg.
Posted by: Pace Arko | June 25, 2007 5:26 PM