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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Zappo" data-source="post: 117227" data-attributes="member: 633">I think that you can have advanced cybernetics and bioware in the same world. Let me explain.You cannot change your DNA. Either someone finds a virus that can get into each and every cell of someone's body and drop the desired DNA segment into it (without killing you in the process), or the genetical alteration of humans will have to be planned and implemented before birth and will be unchangeable afterwards. Assuming the second hypotesis...We end up with a world with very, very, extremely, immense differences between the young (who were engineered with the latest technology) and the old (who only had the first, less powerful, and maybe sometimes faulty, genetical implants).And furher differences between the rich (who can afford the latest genetech for their future sons and daughters) and the poor (who have to rely on chance the old way).So, we have people with superhuman strength and stamina, 200+ IQs, and whatever you can imagine, then we have the ones who are "only" long-lived and immune to most diseases, and then the common guys who are of course looked down on by these rich and young godlings.What do the old and the poor do to fill this huge gap? And what about those whose genetical alterations went horribly wrong?They resort to metal and silicon, of course.There you are... in such a society, the possibilities for conflict (and adventure) are endless.</blockquote>