When will humans be able to go cyborg?
I could argue that we already have some level of cybernetics now, but personally I don’t think that really counts as “cyborg.” What I think of is integrated, thought controlled mechanical systems and circuitry. The thought control would be in the form of electric signals from the brain. So, really, what we need to work on developing is incredibly low power systems that can be run using incredibly low wattage. As of now, Intel and AMD – CPU developers – have introduced 45 nm and 65 nm chips. With each decrease in die size, the wattage decreases a lot; AMD’s new core uses about half the wattage of the previous core design. Unfortunately, this is still about 100w peak power and generates a lot of heat that the human body is not meant to stand (about 55 degrees Celsius or 131 degrees Farenheit). So, to answer, we have a long way to go before we can really work on incorporating bio-circuits. Well, at least with current techniques. I read an article on Dailytech.com a while back about using
