Captain Cyborg plans to milk you, human scum

Borg spam?

What if Cap'n Davros catches a bug, can I expect Viagra adverts direct from his willy?

Or "I am Cap'n Cyborg's credit card and I'd love to give you all his money but I need another account to put it in . . "

A what?

Now I know he never claimed to be a biologist, but I'm not either and even I know that cows aren't a subspecies of humans.

Technonazi

Subspecies eh? Last person I recall using language like that was someone called Adolf. Keep up the work exposing his ideas, humiliating him and showing that he doesn't represent the scientific community in this country.

"He might damage his brain" - if that happens I might just be tempted to throw a party.

Objection!

"Sure, he might damage his brain..."

Assumption of facts not in evidence.

One day...

...he'll bugger up the wiring and fuse himself permanently to the National Grid. And I will laugh, and then have an ice-cream.

Paris, coz Captain Cyborg makes her look like Einstein.

Pretentious d*ck

I hate that guy. Whenever the BBC or whatever come up with a techy programme about the future, horizon or whatever, he gets a call, and I groan.

A supposed authority on all things robotic and some kind of visionary, so what if he's come up with some laboratory scuttling wheeled robots with a modicum of intelligence, or stuck a radio receiver in his arm - he's gone the way of the TV supergeek, a modern day circus performer.

A chilling insight into the future

If you hear him speaking in interviews such as this one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WesVCmadBkQ

You get the remarkable and eerie sensation that a significant part of his brain has already been replaced by chips.

Possibly some mushy peas and a steak and kidney pie as well.

(I think it's time for a Warwick icon)

He is purely a pr machine

I used to have him as a lecturer when i was at uni and he never really did any real research all he was was a publicity whore that brought cash into the department to fund the real research (some of it quite important). But then on the other hand the money he brought in did mean i got to play with a lot of cool kit whilst I was there.

Is he for real?

Are we sure he's not just doing what he does as a (clearly successful) attempt to show up the appalling state of scientific education in the media and in the general public?

His brain?

Surely that's a moooooooooooooo-t point?

@Fraser - "Saying anything for money" is not a skill

The problem is, while he's spouting any old bollocks to wheedle money for his poxy publicity stunts, real scientists get their budgets cuts (I am sure you can scan El Reg most weeks for examples).

Then when the government and the public realise what a waste of space he is, all scientists get tarred with the same brush and suddenly science is a waste of money because it doesn't deliver on its promises.

So I think you'll find in the long term that conning the public with vastly inflated notions of what cybernetics can do is not a victimless crime. He's basically burning the furniture to stay warm.

Sign me up, Lucy

'cuz I am shopping around for a cochlear implant.

And I've heard interesting good things about direct stimulation of the auditory nerve, as well.

The Captain may be shooting sillicon out of his bum, but there's already a slow progression involved. Who knows when personal cybertronics will catch Moore's Law?

I can't wait

We'll ride the crest of the wave of technology, the older we get the longer the average lifespan will get.

Pretty soon smashing up your body by jumping off tall buildings will be a sport to replace soccer as we will have billions of nanite robots to rebuild us.

Sign Me Up!

Evolve or be left behind with any Luddite Losers who choose to linger with the edible carbon based meat sack single genome creatures who will gaze upon the uplifted with liquid cow like eyes.

re: resistance is futile

You forgot about the artificial hearts. Now that they can grow new capillaries, lungs might be next (directed airflow over sheets of capillaries). Could be more efficient than natural ones, and more durable - no alveoli for asbestos/coal dust/cigarette tar/etc to get trapped in.