The Deus Ex Effect

So after finding myself finishing the video game "Deus Ex - Human Revolution" last night, I came to wonder how I would react in living in a world simiarly to that one.

I mean, the art of human augmentation is certainly an interesting concept....I remember before the game was released I was watching all of the trailers and stuff and finding it difficult to form an opinion from it.

I mean, check this video out firstly.


Seems fine enough, I can tell you for a fact that if I lost my arm or my sight or any major limb for that matter that I would defiantly be wanting a replacement, but would a machine really be sufficient?

There's something...strange about having a machine become apart of a human body, inter-grading and operating on a shared neural level to the rest of you. I mean it'll be 'cool' and if you are disabled, certainly 'beneficial' but it is still defiantly unsettlingly.



This trailer certainly seems to paint a more obscure yet paranoid view on the entire thing. Yet the points made are defiantly, and without a doubt very valid. How terrifying would it be if you discovered that whilst owning an augmentation, that the said company that provided it for you was actually hacking your brain, listening to your thoughts and influencing your behaviour?

Even the fact of having to use drugs to stave of rejection syndrome is something that I could really do without.

I certainly know a thing or too about addiction, and I can say that if I had to endue one simply to stay alive....(kinda like I did before) then I don't think I can.

Augmentation in the hands of good, honest people can certainly shape the future of mankind. Evolution is one of our most prized phislopyies yet the very defination of Evolution. "The process by which different kinds of living organisms are thought to have developed and diversified from earlier forms during the history of the earth" means that Augmentation could be our next stage up the ladder...

All I can say is, if put into a situation where I was augmented for survival. I will endue and fight for the reasoning that humanity isn't necessarily about flesh and blood. But rather our soul, and the moral compass we possess to do the best for our common goals.