If you took a timeship to the future where they had biosafe nanotechnology and all those other hi-tech goodies we don't have yet, what would you do?? How would you modify your body (or mind?) with the nanites? Anything beyond just changing your birth sex? Maybe hot-pink organic rubber skin? Changeable haircolor & nails with just a thought? The possibilities are endless! I think nails that change with your mood would be super cool. Maybe you're a loner, you want radiation-hardened armor and ability to survive in vacuum, go live by yourself on an asteroid to meditate... :-P.
You mean besides take over the world?
Body modifications past the obvious?
Super dense crystalline bone structure... super dense chorded muscle so you don't look built but can seriously kick ass and survive mostly anything. Ability to download any information directly to your brain, and have automatic muscle memory... And the ability to make minor alterations to your outward appearance... (clothing included)
As I said, I'd take over the world.
Lower my golf score with ultra high tech club components.
Sydney! My gawd, I lovvvvvve your picture!!! :-D clinically insane Stargate fan here ;-)
btw, I just posted this on the wiki: https://www.susans.org/wiki/Fictional_ways_to_transition#nanotech (https://www.susans.org/wiki/Fictional_ways_to_transition#nanotech)
Hands Up.
How many of us will be the Empress of the Universe.
Ok I'm a wee cynical about the nanotechnology revolution.
Cindy
There are some who say if we're lucky we'll have nanotech in thirty or forty years. If we're unlucky we'll have it in ten.
I cannot believe that we as a species could use n-tech responsibly. Sooner or later we would all end up as grey goo.
There are already worries about nano substances that are used in every day products such as sun screen. These are capable of passing through the blood-brain barrier and we have no idea of the long term consequences.
For all the wonderful possibilities that would be possible with active nanotech, the dangers are even more dire. It is worse than atomic energy. If you could put a nano-fab on a desk, what is to prevent every extremist letting loose a plague of disassemblers? Even a slight mistake in programming from a well thought out fab could be dangerous.
Yes, it could be a magic wand. But like it was so elegantly put in MIB I. "A person is smart, people are stupid." If you give stupid people a magic wand, what do you get? Stupid magic.
-Sandy
I know, I know, I know, nanotech gone bad scares the ->-bleeped-<- outta me lolz
but this is a fun post for fantasizing, not a doom-mongering one lol check out my alien-conspiracy post in the politics section for some real scary stuff that's happening right here, right now
Quote from: transnikki on July 16, 2010, 08:13:35 AM
I know, I know, I know, nanotech gone bad scares the ->-bleeped-<- outta me lolz
but this is a fun post for fantasizing, not a doom-mongering one lol check out my alien-conspiracy post in the politics section for some real scary stuff that's happening right here, right now
Yeah, I'm in that one too. But my alien overlords have already told me if I say too much I'll have to disassemble you. Sorry.
-Sandy
I did read a super-awesome short story once though where a person creates a species of self-replicating nanobots that don't interact with anything unless they're told but rather just sit there after they've replicated, so they spread out through the universe starting from the origin, and get this, this is insane, the creator was able to use them to create a "force" like in Star Wars, so essentially if he wanted to manipulate things telekinetically on the moon, he could, how rad is that?
Quote from: transnikki on July 16, 2010, 09:00:33 AM
I did read a super-awesome short story once though where a person creates a species of self-replicating nanobots that don't interact with anything unless they're told but rather just sit there after they've replicated, so they spread out through the universe starting from the origin, and get this, this is insane, the creator was able to use them to create a "force" like in Star Wars, so essentially if he wanted to manipulate things telekinetically on the moon, he could, how rad is that?
Active nano-tech is such an outrageous story idea that most n-tech stories end up reading like fantasy no matter how hard the science is.
Ok, get this, I have a daemon who does my bidding. I ensnared him using a magic lasso I fashioned out of twigs and leaves gathered at full moon using emoluments I imbued with a spell of binding. At my mental command he could make an image of me on the moon.
Or...
the creator was able to use them to create a "force" like in Star Wars, so essentially if he wanted to manipulate things telekinetically on the moon
Same difference...
-Sandy
no, what you see as magic is merely just very advanced technology lol, check your Clarkian laws ;-)
Quote from: LynnER on July 16, 2010, 02:42:52 AM
You mean besides take over the world?
Body modifications past the obvious?
Super dense crystalline bone structure... super dense chorded muscle so you don't look built but can seriously kick ass and survive mostly anything. Ability to download any information directly to your brain, and have automatic muscle memory... And the ability to make minor alterations to your outward appearance... (clothing included)
As I said, I'd take over the world.
This...totally.
and pink hair.
<--- Closet Furry! Give me Humanoid Female Husky with wings and blue hair! More then happy! I don't need to be superman or wonder woman.
I would give myself dark purple hair...and claws >:-)
EDIT: I can't believe I forgot this...Make my body completely female ^_^
I would give myself the body I want, then I would give myself awesome strength though the body would be slim so you'd have no idea. I'd have permanently black hair with blue and purple streaks.
And...wings that work properly. I'm sick of airplanes, I'd rather fly places with my own wings.
Shapeshifter. Woman today, an Autobot tomorrow. How knows.
Autobots! Transform.
(https://www.susans.org/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimages1.wikia.nocookie.net%2F__cb20060707235546%2Ftransformers%2Fimages%2Fc%2Fc5%2FArceeManga1.jpg&hash=d8ca6cd270ba132a607beb0c2d5a78b0b6228ae9)
I would be a mermaid with wings that could instantly sprout legs for when I felt like going for a walk from time to time... And of coarse I would look like a 21 year old super model at all times :icon_chick:
Become a shapeshifter.... duh
Quote from: Miniar on July 16, 2010, 05:49:38 PM
Become a shapeshifter.... duh
My. Sentiments. EXACTLY.
Quote from: Helena on July 16, 2010, 12:59:44 PM
This...totally.
and pink hair.
The pink dose draw alot of attention, :P but fun explaining to kids how you ended up with waist length pink hair.
"You are what you eat and If you eat nothing but sweets your hair begins to turn into candy floss".
Ooh it's so tempting now ^_^ but I mustn't... I can't afford to be anymore unique and distinctive XD .. but the bottle is just over there O_O'''
I'm with the shape shifters on this one, because you then you could go anywhere and not just this planet. In addition I would ensure that the body can endure for millenium.
Kind regards
Sarah B
Being a shape shifter is somewhat of a given... But what kind of shapes would you shift to? ...DUH
Quote from: Virginia Marie on July 16, 2010, 06:28:34 PM
Being a shape shifter is somewhat of a given... But what kind of shapes would you shift to? ...DUH
Archaeopteryx.
Then a humpback whale.
Then a giraffe.
It might be fun to enter the hall of congress and one of the founding father and scare the willies out of all those wusses.
Quote from: Janet Lynn on July 16, 2010, 06:43:22 PM
It might be fun to enter the hall of congress and one of the founding father and scare the willies out of all those wusses.
XD That would be great fun, and I couldn't help but laugh.
Although it might be fun to appear before The Dope ..... ah .... Pope as Jesus and tell him they have been wrong all these years.
Quote from: Virginia Marie on July 16, 2010, 06:28:34 PM
Being a shape shifter is somewhat of a given... But what kind of shapes would you shift to? ...DUH
... *points at the Art Exchange 2.0: Fantasy (https://www.susans.org/forums/index.php/topic,80625.0.html) thead*
I'm the only one thinking of a better round of golf??? WTF... ???
Quote from: SydneyTinker on July 16, 2010, 07:03:28 PM
I'm the only one thinking of a better round of golf??? WTF... ???
Possibly...If I played golf, I might put that...though I think wings trump that. :P
Quote from: Shang on July 16, 2010, 07:04:23 PM
Possibly...If I played golf, I might put that...though I think wings trump that. :P
Especially if your a haute mermaid with wings :laugh:
Quote from: Virginia Marie on July 16, 2010, 07:09:12 PM
Especially if your a haute mermaid with wings :laugh:
Mmm....hot mermaids with wings. *drools* I mean...<.< >.> :laugh:
Oooooh I lovvve the mermaid idea :-) lol but did you see on Family Guy what mermen really look like? I'd want a sexy sturdy human sea captain as a lover :-). Or maybe a Ceylonese pearl diver....
Quote from: transnikki on July 16, 2010, 07:38:51 PM
Oooooh I lovvve the mermaid idea :-) lol but did you see on Family Guy what mermen really look like? I'd want a sexy sturdy human sea captain as a lover :-). Or maybe a Ceylonese pearl diver....
In the movie "Sea-Creature", mermaids were really sexy and they bred in a weird way. The leader of the mermaids would let herself get captured then she would help the man who captured her impregnate the wife and that's how they breed. It was really strange...
And then the leader of the mermaid would somehow, through suggestions probably, lead the person who captured her back to where she was captured and she would transform into this really creepy looking monster and proceed to slaughter everyone on board the ship, minus the pregnant lady, and feed her brood.
I wouldn't do that to a sexy muscular Sri Lankan pearl diver though. He dives under the waves for wild aquatic lovemaking with the dolphins dancing around us....
whoah now, whoah now, admittedly it's been some time lol, but the Andromeda strain was extraterrestrial; Michael Crichton was utilizing the panspermia hypothesis (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panspermia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panspermia)) as a plot point
Quote from: transnikki on July 16, 2010, 10:00:30 PM
whoah now, whoah now, admittedly it's been some time lol, but the Andromeda strain was extraterrestrial; Michael Crichton was utilizing the panspermia hypothesis (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panspermia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panspermia)) as a plot point
Actually, The Andromeda Strain was a strain of bacteria that had been on a space shuttle that had been shot into orbit. It was left in space and it evolved there to became the disease that caused havoc in that small town. Crichton has a line in the book where it says that, but it's only one line.
and yeah @Perlita, you're 100% right about alarmism :-) last I checked we don't live in a nuclear wasteland ;-)
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like I said it's been years lol, but I thought it was sent up to collect dust samples? one of the dust samples contained an extraterrestrial spaceborn virus though, as in the panspermia hypothesis
I would have... lots of muscles! Probably dark brown or purple skin... an extra pair of arms, big webbed ears, naturally green or pink hair... and of course, a big awesome penis. I'm thinking wings too, but would that be too many limbs for the upper part of my body? Also, a tail! Maybe some interesting, otherworldly looking eyeballs. I'm torn between no body hair or lots of furry body hair. Hair that felt like a chinchilla's fur. I don't know for sure, all I know is that I'd look awesome! Totes.
Quote from: perlita85 on July 16, 2010, 09:08:23 PM
A lot of hysteria and fear comes from misinformantion produced by sensaconlistic media eager to sell papers, magazines of TV time. Take the example of the "carbon nanotubes" which currently are the worhorse of the nano materias industry. There is a lot of people saying how dangerous they are. I said remeber that carbon nanotubes naturally occour in sooth, we evolved breahing this stuff. The real danger to us is ignornace and intlerance. At the national level loosing industial capacity is a big big worry
Carbon nano tubes are innocuous, at least as far as we can tell. However, zinc, gold, and other metals that are also part of nano materials act very differently when the particles are molecular in size rather than in conventional manufacturing. These are not naturally occurring. These molecular sized particles can enter cellular walls and cross the blood-brain barrier. We have no scientific information of the long term effects of exposure to nano-materials.
We also have no choice.
The nano-materials business is a billion dollar business and growing. It's already here. And it's already in you.
For example, if you have used a sunscreen with an SPF greater than 30 you have applied nano-manufactured zinc directly to your skin. That is the reason that you can get high SPF sunscreen.
I'm not alarmist nor pessimistic. I think that the promise of nano manufacturing and nano-tech IS a magic wand. I just hope that we can use it wisely and well.
-Sandy
Oh dear Sandy, pleas do not fell in the trsp of the alarmists.
Yeah, because they were all so wrong about nuclear weapons, and that whole deal about 'power being too cheap to meter' - well, we're all living in that world.
Pray for the best, but bet on the worst.
After all, like what problems could possibly happen from drilling more than a mile underwater? Pessimists.
I'd also opt for a shapeshifter! C'mon; if I could adopt ány form within the weight-limits of my body... Who'd care about transition? Just a snap of my fingers and I'd be there!
And... Lots and lots of other stuff! Get rid of chalk bones; just shift them into titanium! This saves on weight.. Let's see...
Ooh; I'd love that!
Too bad it's never going to be possible, but still... I love to dream about stuff like this...
And no; no eXistenZ-like hooking up to networks, for me.. No biotic parts, please, unless I háve to replace a limb. I'm not against biotics, but I think they should be limited to the people who nééd them. Vision chips for the blind, biotic limbs for the paralysed/amputees, that sort of stuff. I'm against them for anyone else, because no matter what, biology will always be better due to its self-repairing and adaptability qualities.
Still.. Becoming a shapeshifter with some biological engineering would be so completely dreamy! (Of course; you'd have to leave certain things in tact for life-support.. Otherwise, you might easily kill yourself with that..)
Quote from: perlita85 on July 17, 2010, 07:32:27 AM
I praise you for being alert and concern, and for opportunity to exchange information and educate.
Kind regards,
Perlita
Thank you for the correction. I do appreciate keeping my facts straight.
For some background information on n-materials science as it is today, start with the wikipedia entry:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanomaterials (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanomaterials)
Also check out the works of Richard Feynman ("There's Plenty of Space at the Bottom!"), which is considered the dawn of nano-tech. While he did not use the term, his lecture showed that there was no physical reason why smaller and smaller devices could not be made all the way down to the quantum level and speculated on the usefulness of those devices.
And of course the seminal works of K. Erik Drexler ("Engines of Creation") who originated the term nanotechnology and speculated about the wonders of such applications including programmable matter and utility fogs.
And to stay on topic, which I tried most valiantly to avoid: If I had access to N-tech, I would of course make myself eternally youthful and completely female with all the proper working parts. Then I would knock down the first good looking stud and jump his bones and have him make me pregnant.
Or perhaps upload my mind to the almost certain to be developed Matroishka brain:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrioshka_brain (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrioshka_brain)
Or maybe both.
-Sandy
To quote Sandy
And to stay on topic, which I tried most valiantly to avoid: If I had access to N-tech, I would of course make myself eternally youthful and completely female with all the proper working parts. Then I would knock down the first good looking stud and jump his bones and have him make me pregnant.
Ah for saturday nights. :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
Cindy
Boring as it sounds, I'd simply give myself a body that matches the soul it contains.. Of course, it would be a 21yo hottie..
To assuage grey goo fears; we're surrounded by single-minded self-replicating machines already. They're called bacteria. We tend to survive.
In fact, a molecular assembly machine is far more likely to be in the form of a household appliance, rather than a cloud of angry nanorobots. It won't be that dangerous unless you stick your hand in it.
And particularly to Dryad, you might want to look at Natasha Vita More's Primo Posthuman.
http://www.natasha.cc/primointro.htm (http://www.natasha.cc/primointro.htm)
It's clearly a cyborg by any reasonable definition, but without the 'cold hard metal' aesthetics that so many find unappealing.
And the 'gender flexibility' might be of particular interest to certain members of this forum.
I would cry for the human part to come back.
Answering this question is like finding a stoppered bottle washed up on a beach.
First, like so many others, I would want to change my body, keeping my same height, softening my features
and changing my endocrine system.
Second, I would request immortality. If I'm really
going to change, I want to be able to be around long
enough to enjoy it.
Nanotechnology is really a scary proposition. So much
potential for good, and so many ways it could be abused.
Maybe we shouldn't actually open that bottle.
If nanotechnology rendered me truly immortal, I'd probably slowly become completely psychopathic, less able to identify with other human beings as I'd drift away from "human".
I'd probably become dangerous within 2-300 years...
Amberlee:
Wow; that's a fun idea to toy with! But... Unless it's made of flesh, bone and blood, I'm not really interested... It's a trust thing, for me.
Another question would be: How would you pilot a body like that? Remote control? Personality copy/paste? Brain replacement surgery? If the latter, I might still be interested. If not, then it would, to me, simply be fake.. :( It's a philosophical question: Once you copy yourself, and put the program into another device, then the new you will have all the data of the old you, but the old you would still be the you that you experience from. To kill off that old you would be the best option for the new you, but then, you'd be dead, and the effect would just be reproduction, not change.
Of course; if you'd simply transfer your brain tissue, or at least the bits of it that make you you, to the new body, then I don't see a problem with it...
That, and please; make it flesh and blood. It's good material; long-lasting, self-repairing... Whereas even with nanobots, if it breaks, you're in trouble. A program might break down, and the self-reparation would simply stop.
Also: Where does this body get the materials for energy and self-repair? Nutrients are biology's answer to that, and it's just a brilliant system.
For me, it's not about the looks of the thing, but about the materials used. (The looks are what make me want it; the materials are what makes me reject the idea.)
Sorry; I just... Can't put my trust in technology like that. Bio-engineering, though.. That's something else.
In addition to changing my sex to match my gender-and I do mean changing it to the point of enabling reproduction-I would repair my body. No more asthma or fibromyalgia. No more arthritis from the harshness of my misspent youth. A digestive system that doesn't cause me problems at both ends.
As far as fantastic things I might like...hmmm. Wings, most definitely-as long as they are functional. Telekinesis. Pyrokinesis. And all on/in a body shaped about like Lily Cole's.