Possible Upgrades on the Horizon.

Would you change your human eyes for "upgraded" bionic ones?

    a future's Blog.

By: Andreas Katsouris

   More than 14 years has passed since the retinal project started and scientists are working on to bring a unique and useful upgrade to people that have low to no vision. Few years ago a viable retinal prosthesis was brought to the market by America. It's not something that we could say we didn't expect. Just as every human part is researched and developed in a "robotic" way same goes with the eyes and retinas as well.

   Although a lot of people are pleased to hear and see what the future holds for human kind and the improvements we are going to be able to have in a few years. Some others don't lose the opportunity to research the project a bit further and discover the possible upgrades that could happen through out this project as well.

Fig.01

   Is it considered a bad idea to change a part of your body that it's 100% healthy? To be specific a lot of people are looking at this project somehow like a garage of a human body where you are able to choose and change body parts based on the abilities you will get from the upgrade. Possible changes could be achieved by this project alone in the future such as improved bionic eyes replacing our - even if  healthy - not so powerful in comparison human eyes. Would you consider humans with perks like night-vision and adjustable zoom eyes upgraded versions of our nature? It's possible that we are going to have access to technology we were only able to see in the movies back in the 80's. There are possible ways that we can close the gaps and solve the problems in our bodies that many people call nature and refuse to change but on the other hand many people would love to get one step closer to what we call "Cyborgs". 

   Is this blaspheme towards our the Greater Existence we call God or is it part of our nature to evolve and discover our inner worlds? Soon we will find out through experience.The fact that we can create better versions of our body parts is a big step for technology but is it the same for human kind? When does technology cross the line that humanity holds and where do we lose ourselves? Is this new age going to create a huge gap between two groups of people accepting or not this rapid technological evolution? Science and Religion were never meant to get along with each other and that is on of the main head to head disagreements that is probably going to happen ever.  

- Some Trans-humanists believe that as technology improves, people might replace their healthy retinas for implants if it meant gaining added functionality such as night vision. ~ (Luke Robert Mason, Director of Virtual Futures, 2012)

- Fig.01 (Wired, 2012).