Wednesday, August 14, 2019

The Bionic Surgeon vs The Bionic Soldier

Let me tell you about a world that I have visited in my dreams.
In this world great good and light are matched equally by a great dark and evil.
When you are born into this world you immediately begin integrating with machines, computers, and devices. As a toddler and a child your parents and your parenting AI watch you closely to determine which toys your gravitate towards, which programs you pick up easily, and which robots you seem to prefer. Around puberty and always before highschool, you are assigned. Your parents, teachers and of course the AI analyze the data of your childhood and quickly surmise which path in life you would be most suited for and you enter highschool with your future clearly before you.
In highschool you begin to receive your first specific, societally sanctioned upgrades. Some wealthier children may already have received an implant for boosting reading comprehension, or some other Enhancement purchased for them by their families; but in highschool the government are the ones choosing and provided the upgrades.
Those chosen for interpersonal, bureaucratic, or diplomatic work get their language chips and being processing dialects. Those chosen for physical tasks like search and rescue or war begin to undergo preparations to integrate their new bionic parts. Muscles must be primed and cells treated with chemical agents to ensure their young bodies dont reject their new appendages. Those chosen for research or precise medicine start to learn how to control the programming in their eye enhancements, or begin practicing with the delicate instruments that will one day extend effortlessly from their wrists to perform graceful and intricate tasks.

This is the world of Enhancements. Enhanced techniques and skills in medicine have completely eradicated most afflictions. For many average citizens of this world, life is bright and good without instances of pain, disease, or suffering. The good of this world has been enhanced with it's inhabitants.
On the other hand, however, the need for resources and control are still present. For some in this world the Enhancements have only enhanced the dark. The bionic soldier's mind and soul evolve over the course of their life to process feelings like guilt and empathy quite differently than those equipped with more altruistic enhancements. The accuracy and lethality of their enhancements can eradicate as precisely as the surgeons instruments, but with quite a different moral result.

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