However, they still cost money... An out of pocket expense, achievable to own, only based on ones ability to afford it. Or at least the ability to obtain credit so they can get one on an installment plan.
And as necessities, people are required to have them as far as they can afford them and maintaining their operation and connection to the net. But it's not like people are getting any additional help to do that.
If what this woman says is true, where human beings will eventually find ways to retrofit and repair our bodies at will, that's going to cost a lot of money to accomplish and maintain. Will some kind of insurance plan provide for that? What if some people have life-saving replacement organs and for one reason or another, are unable to keep up with the payments?
There was a recent movie called "Repo Men" that touched on that subject. People who were unable to keep up with the payments for their artificial organs were hunted down by "Repo Men", who basically murdered them and removed the organs.
Also, let's not forget that human beings are obscenely vain creatures. Those who can afford it and are willing to undergo the process, could basically transform themselves into literally anything. There's an entire movement based on Modern Primitivism, where people cover there entire bodies with tattoos, piercing, scars and what-not. Will the next movement create a class of people who would have six limbs and two heads?
Now, of course, there's nothing wrong with that. But that obviously something to think about if we're going to start changing social norms to accommodate an entirely new class of human beings. Again, how are they going to pay for all of that? Or, is society going to foot the bill? How long do you think that would last when some people realize that they're paying for the elective transformation of the terminally vain?
But most of all, consider the trend of a diminishing middle class and falling wages. People are less and less able to afford even the basics... Like food, much less, any computers that people can own. And then, we'd have to factor in a transhumanistic system that could dictate what's available to preserve, maintain and enhance human life. If our capitalistic system of health care, which is based on profit from survival, is still somewhat intact in this future, it would mean that access to insurance and care facilities would be paramount.
Obviously, the rich would have access to both the best care and options in such a situation. While the rest of us without available means would have to scrape by, vulnerable to the leeches that would limit access by way of a high premium. Talk about a perfect storm of capitalistic exploitation.
It has always cost more to be poor than it does to be rich in America. Now we're imagining an America where our survival could be at stake based on our ability to enhance our own bodies.
It's not like something like that is going to come free.
Just like the necessities of computers and cell phones today, one's access to them depends on ones ability to afford them.
Will Transhumanism create another new necessity for human survival that we'll have to figure out how to afford as well?
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