As we stand on the precipice of science fiction into science fact, people say: Hell yeah, I want to augment my eyesight!
Dude. Imagine, like, if you had – bear with me – a smartphone, right? But, like, in your HEAD?!
Disregard the fact we already have nature’s most powerful known computer sitting inside our noggins, with processing power that not even a million Arm cores running in parallel can replicate, a study from Kaspersky suggests folk are fairly keen on the cyberpunk dream of human augmentation.
Opinium Research surveyed 14,500 adults across 16 countries in Europe and North Africa on behalf of the security firm and found that while 92 per cent would change a physical aspect of themselves, 63 per cent said they would consider improving their bodies with technology.