Change The Blueprint

[poliphilo]

The human body is in urgent need of a re-design.

I mean, basically, it's the same monkey body we had when we first traipsed out of the woods and onto the savannahs.

It's built to last about 25 years. After which time it starts going wrong. We've quadrupled our life expectancy, but without upgrading the vehicle. And so we spend three quarters of our life-span in a body that's performing well below its best. How stupid is that?

We accept that an athlete is past it by thirty. How abject!

And it's so fragile. Why settle for skin and bone when you could have titanium?

Comments

[idahoswede.livejournal.com]

Skin is MUCH nicer and warmer to cuddle up with than titanium.

[samhain-punk.livejournal.com]

Well, not that this is what you meant, but I have read some articles that had scientists speculating that the human head is getting gradually larger due to the increased use of the C-section. Not that this improves matters.

[jackiejj.livejournal.com]

How right you are. I'd never considered it before, that really we're meant for 25 good years.

I feel really cobbled together at this point. I envy those people in science fiction books who download themselves into computers so that their essence is in bytes and they can roam the universe.

If we could do things over, rewrite our evolution, I'd really like to have wings. Although by now I suspect my feathers would be falling out. Figures.

[tx-cronopio.livejournal.com]

All too true! Although I have titanium all the way down my right leg, it doesn't really help...

I can't get past...

[jubal51394.livejournal.com]

the revulsion I feel thinking of lying in bed beside my beloved... stroking titanium!

[halfmoon-mollie.livejournal.com]

I"m thinking here of Data, the android...whatever he was...on Star Trek TNG. His skin wasn't titanium. And does anyone remember the episode where Tasha Yaar asked him if he was 'fully funtional'? No titanium there, I'm sure.

So much of what was once thought of as Science Fiction has come to pass, I always wonder if one of the reasons why is that 'that' caught the eye of some young soon to be inventor. Remember the communicators on the FIRST Star Trek? Today's cell phones are very much like them...

So, if 'they' could make a Data, why does a better model human have to be titanium?

Just a question.