Re:Our descendents won't be human. (Score 1)

Again the same with cybernetics. I know that there's currently a group of people in America who are in love with the idea of having cybernetics attached to themselves, but IMHO they're just a variation on the body-mutilators, albeit a slightly less bizarre one.

I wouldn't discount this possibility out of hand. Plenty of cultures have traditions of "mutilation" or body-modification, even in ways that your typical American or Westerner might find grotesque. Heck, plenty of Americans are modifying their bodies in ways that other Americans find grotesque. I don't think it takes much imagintion to come up with a cybernetics that both effectively communicates that you remain "human" and is aesthetically pleasing to typical humans or whatever. And so... well, leaning on the whole evolutionary idea, it may well be that the ability to stomach this kind of body modification, especially in the perhaps less pleasing early stages, will lead to an advantage in the accumulation of technological power to come.