Thanks for the tagging function, you picked it, this was really enjoyable to read. Good discussion of transhumanism. Personal views are more cynical than this, I think rather than mind into cyborg body it will be more like cyborg parts into human body, old stuff like cochlear implants, pacemakers and new artificial eyes they are making. Only then it will only be available for the select few, call them the 0.1%. Formation of a new social class, augmented ones, repetition of feudalism. Enjoyed this refined line: “Androids are replacing them, no manufactured payments owed” – good comment on the manufacturing profit-culture. Also this line was good and perhaps deserved a bit more exposition: “Each profound indeed, a new religion dawns when our consumerism squanders dead” – would be cool to have its own whole story, about this consumerism religion. “Strengthening the bonds you've allowed to evolve in the now
As an author in an age where only knowledge is power” I think it is a comment on the globalization of the world due to internet and phones. Good working of this image, the Mars descriptions did well for the background desert, and the tech stuff for the blueish glow and the kind of steampunk wandering figures and crash site.
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