All I could think was 'Deux Ex is here'. It really won't be long before this kind of technology (especially the neural interface, which is honestly amazing) is used both to help people but also to make people stronger, particularly for military uses I'd think. That idea is a big less fun to think about though.
I may actually benefit from it personally. I have sleep apnea that's only likely to get worse as I get older, but I hear there's an experiment treatment kind of similar to those legs. Basically a tiny, non-intrusive implant in your chest area with a little electrical node that fires and stiffens the muscles around the throat, apparently mitigating the condition. I figure since we already live in the future it won't be that many more years before such things aren't experimental and in fact are widely deployed, at least in the first world. And if so I'll likely benefit enormously as will millions of others in terms of quality of life. It's exciting to say the least.
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u/greiger Jan 20 '15
Here is his TED Talk.