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While we're at it, how about cybernetics, too?
We can literally give sight to the blind, hearing to the deaf, and make the lame walk again.
We also have the very cyberpunk distopian problem of people being left with implants that are no longer supported by the manufacturers [2] [3]
At least we don't need Neuropozyne (Deus Ex).
Btw, what happened with the nanotubes-coated contacts that neurons are all too happy to connect to?
Prostetics have gotten extremely advanced in the last 20 years. People are controlling and getting real feedback from replacement limbs.
Yeah, both nanotech and cybernetics are everyday things. Still very expensive, but both have mostly reached enough milestones that they go by whatever their more specific puposes are. Like prothetics with feedback aren't called cybernetics because cybernetics is too broad a term.
Unfortunately, even our most advanced ones are more limited than a lot of people think and have a high rejection rate of around 44% that's never talked about. Some do genuinely like them, but many say they still prefer the relatively simple body powered prosthetics, or none at all.
This could change as advancements are made, but as of now they're a bit of a scam.
Remember that old 80s future movie where a guy with no cyber mods was trying to compete in a fighting competition in order to prove that it was better to be fully human?