Who's up for a game of Griffball?

The Goddamn Batman

One of my more favorite books by one of my more favorite authors.

Wait, is this the real Griff, or simulated-inside-Church's-AI-Griff?

Devlopers developers developers!

My only choice is to blame Grif, for coming up with such a flawed plan.

I'm too excited by all this stuff to revel in y'alls witty pop culture orgy. I figure at the rate of decay I've got, there's 15, 20 years before I can't visually function on my own. And at the rate of growth this tech has been showing, I might be able to actually swap out these lumps of shiat for some friggin' awesome implants.

Do I have to go to Chiba City to get my implants? I really hate that place

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Who's up for a game of Griffball?

UNC_Samurai: My only choice is to blame Grif, for coming up with such a flawed plan.

I'm on break....hey if you don't use it you lose it. Also, I'm on Simmons' break.

Yeah he's always had a major screw loose:

Yeah, evilmrsock, my thoughts exactly. I want the ones with 1080000000p, UV and IR. Oh to be able to see at night.

Transhumanism FTW.

Call me when we start having to deal with neuropozyne or start outlawing bionics, leading to a blowup of a major city.

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evilmrsock: I'm too excited by all this stuff to revel in y'alls witty pop culture orgy. I figure at the rate of decay I've got, there's 15, 20 years before I can't visually function on my own. And at the rate of growth this tech has been showing, I might be able to actually swap out these lumps of shiat for some friggin' awesome implants.

It's pretty awesome. I'm guessing that initially they'll only have approval for operating on people with cases that have already progressed severely, but that will surely shift earlier as technique and technology improve. It's only going to get better and better.

This generation of wholly-inside-the-eye solution (the "Retina Implant" brand ones the article describes) may be less modular than the Second Sight ones, but all of this will surely converge in design, so that people will ultimately be able to swap in new, better photoreceptors and lens assemblies into waiting connectors in their eyeballs without disturbing the electrodes that stimulate the optic nerves.
(From what the article says, it sounds like the Retina Implant ones are currently just substitute retinas, using the eyes' own focal properties, but no doubt full artificial optics assemblies will eventually make it into the insides of eyes, too.)