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

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.

Quote from: Helena on July 16, 2010, 12:59:44 PM

and pink hair.

Plaid

<--- 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. 

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 

Become a shapeshifter.... duh

Quote from: Miniar on July 16, 2010, 05:49:38 PM
Become a shapeshifter.... duh

My. Sentiments. EXACTLY.