[K5pbem] Life in 2112

[Michael Surbrook]

On Jun 4, 2006, at 9:21 AM, Alex Fauth wrote:

>> Okay, so there's talk of new cyborg bodies and the like, allowing   
>> people to work in different environments, but you don't see  
>> people  being "grown" that way.
>
> That's what I was thinking, yes. And even then, because its  
> cybernetic, its reatively "temporary." You can allways go back to a  
> Humanish body at some point doewn the road - soft shell or the  
> like. Or even having "multiple" bodies that a brain can be  
> trasfered from - eg, a millitary option for a 3-meter tall  
> robnoteank body, buyt then having a softshell for Downtime and the  
> like.

GITS: SAC has something like this -- with people swapping their  
brains among different cyborg bodies. So now you get adds for  
different bodies -- just like cars.


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