Sunday, October 22, 2006

Conceptual Pre-writing

Equal rights for Naturals!
Enhanced humans have forgotten their roots. Thos who can afford thes technologies have forced many out of their jobs; survival of the richest has taken a new level of unbelievability. Enhanced citizens are still only human, and are a prone to failure as a natural person.

"We have taken the next step in our evolution. If some choose not to enhance, then they doom themselves to extinction. Denying the changes offered is denying natural selection. humanity as we know it is redefined, and if people don't keep up with the times, they will be left behind. We have seen this in the past; hundreds of years ago, the aborigines modernized or died out. The Amish are all but extinct. The only citizens without personal computers are living like animals in the bowels of our cities. Those who refuse to merge are kidding themselves, and will eventually be forgotten by history."

Merging is a popular term for a mainstreamed form of bio-technological enhancement.
-Cerebral implants, directly connects mind to world wide computer network
-mental augmentations- speeds up thought processes, reflexes, reduces need for sleep

Other enhancements
-physical, both in appearance and performance, not plastic or chemical, but through genetic engineering
*issues with perfection

Where is humanity? consequences of supposed perfection? weakness or flaws in system?

plot concept-romeo and juliet architype, using this techno-social rift, rather than family feud.

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