I find alternative approaches to prosthetics fascinating. With enough crativity, prostethics dont need to be replacements for standard limbs. How long do you think it will be before prosthetics exceed regular limbs?
What can you possibly use this for?.. ?.. Oooooooooooooh…
No reason to just copy our old anatomy if you can come up with something better. For example, humans don’t have nearly enough thumbs. Not only do we obviously need thumbs on our feet but we should also get a 2nd thumb on the opposite side of our hands.
But that’s because the thumbs would be extremely useful. So what exactly is the advantage of a tentacle? The only way to grab something would be to constrict around it
Fetishes.
You understand quite well the purpose human limbs fulfill, and where they lack potential.
On the subject of ditching the human 1.0 blueprints, cheap prosthetics could bring the opportunity to add limbs or mechadendrites tech priest style. I often just need one more hand to hold something in place while I’m working, not even a proper dexterous hand, just something simple with some clamping force for when my hands are already in use. Could attach it with a harness or something. Cheap prosthetics plus some ability to control them via brain (I know most current designs work by looking for muscle movements intended for the now-missing limb, so I don’t know how we’d send signals to an additional one yet) would be awesome.
So you want to be a Motie?
It sounds like I have a new book(?) to read(?)
Yes! It’s a trilogy by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle. The first book is “The Mote in God’s Eye”
Thanks!! I’ll check them out
My understanding is that the tentacles advantage is ease of manufacturing and very low cost. I thought it was an interesting discussion point.
From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me…
I think we’re waiting for improvements to battery tech to unlock the next level on the tech tree. Small, powerful batteries would allow for much stronger prosthetics, robots/drones with more capabilities, laser guns, all the cool cyberpunk stuff.
prehensile tail, please
Prostetics would need to be directly conected to bone before it could get stronger than a biological limb.
