DEUS EX MACHINA!
Okay, so, I had some predictions for the future, but didn't know whether to post them. I eventually just said 'fuck it' and have decided to post them.
1 - The realisation of sexual and/or existential fantasies
tl;dr: furries and tentacle rape become reality lol/Gattacca says hi
As medical technologies become more advanced and cheaper, we can expect cosmetic operations to become more complex and also customised. One such thing might be to remove all a man's (or woman's) facial hair permanently, although that can be done today with lasers and other treatments. Perhaps another of these would be the removal of sweat glands in inconvenient places (I'll be honest here, I sweat like a pig (lol pigs don't actually sweat) in my armpits no matter what I try, and sweat, at least there, has never done me any good and has only been an inconvenience. If such intricate surgery was available now as there would be in the future, I would get the sweat glands in my arm pits, and probably in other places, removed. That's just an example of the application of such nanotechnology-assisted/-done surgery).
As genetic modification and engineering progresses, we can expect not only generally superior humans, but also those that choose to have their genes spliced with those of animals. Yes, animals. Some animals have extremely helpful genetic features; some lizards, I believe it might have been the Komodo dragon, have a phenomenal immune system that would be greatly beneficial to any human if it could be safely applied. Genetic modifications would likely be made in the womb or soon after birth, and I see such modifications/splicings as difficult to perform later in life, but I don't think that'll stop people from trying them. The rest is the sort of stuff from Gattacca, parents choose, before their child is born, the genetic improvements they want to have.
Now of course, with ultra-fine and -detailed surgery, and such genetic modifications, there will be those who push the envelope. Or tear it apart. This is where a more unusual prediction comes in: The realisation of 'furries' (I dislike furries, but I wouldn't go out of my way to harm or inconvenience them), but I see this as being another thing that is made possible in the future. Where some of them can only dream of being anthropomorphic, or in a perfect fursuit, with cheap and intricate surgery and genetic modification, furries would become a reality for those with enough money and dedication to their eccentricities. The only way I see something not coming true is if it were made illegal, but I just can't see that happening.
Because of the sexual connotations with furries, the thought of another unusual sexual fetish: Tentacle rape/sex/hentai (btw, I'm a /b/tard and visit 4chan and Encyclopedia Dramatica regularly, that's how I know of these). I suppose this is just another of those things that'd become a reality, unless it were considered bestiality and made illegal. Women (or men) who would want it bad enough, could likely have a creature genetically engineered to fulfil their sexual fantasies.
2 - The value of the human
tl;dr: furries, tentacle rape, and now CP too? Awww shiit
I think it's already accepted that at some point in the future, it will be possible, if not also mainstream, that human bodies, or possibly fully-fledged humans will be grown and not just born, ie, 'test tube babies'. This will have massive implications on humanity, namely, the value of an individual human. If it possibly to give these test-tube-people sentience, or to have people's minds uploaded into them as a new body, what does that mean to normal people? If 'people' are able to be made from their raw materials, an adult body from 70 litres (or was it kilograms?) of water, and all the other carbon, iron and whatnot, then I'm pretty sure the 'human stock market' or at least the value of human beings, would basically collapse.
If sentience too can be put into these creations? Then I think murder as a crime would be much less punishable. We kill someone for murder because they killed someone, but what if that person who was murdered could have their mind uploaded into a machine or a grown body? Suddenly, a murder does not become so permanent. Unless of course the brain itself is destroyed or damaged, or the body isn't retrieved quickly enough, then I can see murder being punished with murder; otherwise, I think the death penalty for murder would be removed.
So, the human being has just been devalued. We now have test-tube-people walking amongst us. If we 'die' we can just have our brain uploaded to a machine or another body. The rights of the individual would change dramatically, and the problem of overpopulation would become immense. Age limits would, unless we moved to other solar systems (once this one is too full), have to be imposed to curb overpopulation.
Now onto a very touchy subject. I don't care if you think me sick for bringing it up or considering it, I do not support it, nor do I wholly care what you think about me for saying it. I'm a /b/tard, I don't have to support these things, but I'm certainly aware of it and joking of it. What is it that makes child pornography illegal? (lol if I get v& for typing that)
Is it that they are unable to fully understand what they are getting into? Is it because such a thing could damage them in some way? I'm pretty sure that in the future, with genetic engineering and faultless cosmetic surgery, we'd see women grown and perfected (in terms of beauty) whose only existence, the purpose for them being made, was to be in pornography? Such specified creation could also easily be applied to other fields of recreation or work, too, don't forget. So hey, someone/thing's life just became all about pornography. Do they know any better? Will they do anything else with their life? More than likely not. If a child is to never do anything than what they are currently doing, what is the true harm in keeping them doing it? They have no parents, no guardians, only scientists or machines that grew them. Because of that, I could also see child pornography (only by those created, not those born) becoming possible in the future.
Sorry if some of the stuff above is grossly misinformed, but I just felt like saying some of that.
