Sometime 2012 I came to think about the future of mankind (oh yes!). The bleak future of millions becoming irrelevant in a roboticised future where even semi-intellectual work starts to be taken over by expert machines.
A global army of jobless in a shrinking economical turnover.
That reality is true, and it is bound to happen, but the shelf-life of the human is not yet exhausted. The options are, unfortunately, unthinkable. The striving of mankind is like a rocket - throttle the engine just below the point of gravitational pull and it will crash into the ground, tearing civilisation apart.
The humanoid is an ultraflexible self-repairing self perpetuating mechanism in himself, but he needs a few high-tech crutches to gain a new level of functionality.
He lacks propensity for repetitive work, there is a serious mismatch between two operations that would need to be exact. He is not nearly as fast as a dedicated robotic arm. He has to be educated for new tasks with soft non-programming methods, like a neural network, and it is nearly impossible to tell if he truly managed to absorb the information correctly.
What if one alters his body to carry a secondary neural contour?
The Dermaspan is the generic platform upon which the Neurotracer adapter is resting.
The carriage allows for a reconfigurable entrapment of the human on an operating platform, allowing automatic limb positioning and body flip-over. The carriage can move automatically within range of the operative manipulator. The entrappers based on vacuum suction are adjustable both for limb lengths ans limb thicknesses.
In fact, the Neurotracer part is only the attachable winding cassette at the end of the high-precision manipulator, with it's energy/fluid/gas supply cabling. A sewing mechanism will inject thin composite wiring in a criss-cross fashion, 0,5-1 millimeters into the skin, de-facto creating a secondary nerve net. The net can include microscopic tubeshaped computational units and will have a high degree of redundancy. Injected adapter points will have to be placed to connect on to the biological nerve paths along the body. Part of the composite artificial nerve could be electropolymer fibers that can generate electricity for the driver electronics of the miniature adapters. Electropolymers generate electricity from motion - stretching and contracting.
A healing laser could be part of the Neurotracer adapter, fusing and disinfecting the minute operative paths.
In the end, the artificial network will form a tree congregating near the head, and entering a multiplexer that is connected to a signal distributive matrix wedged between two neck spinal taps. The multiplexer cannot be inserted automatically, being the only crucial operation that will have to be done in a separate ward by computer-assisted medics.
The augmented humanoid will gain several advantages
- connectivity to other humanoids, remote skilled work by "bodily posession"
- connectivity to expert systems, instant gain of new skill sets
- improved reaction speed
- parallel tasking, the humanoid does not even need to be aware of what he is doing
- new training methodologies, accelerated enforced physical training
- perfect coordination, near-perfect repetitiveness and positioning
As part of the Dermaspan complex a protective casing shell is wrapped up around the operating carriage, and just as quickly unwrapped, taking a minimum of usable space. A disinfection unit is integrated into one of the casing doors.
Welcome to your new telehaptic life. Forget about your old useless self. Prepare to be improved!
(This is a product on CGTrader: https://www.cgtrader.com/3d-models/science-medical/medical/neurotracer-operating-table)
