I’ve recently met an acquaintance with a bionic leg again. It detects if he’s walking forward or backward, climbing stairs, walking, or running. It only needs to be charged once or twice a week and works even on unstable, muddy ground.

Now granted, it’s a 6 figure device, but still, I’m really impressed whenever SotA body replacement parts come up.

It's extra fun when they detect wrong and drop you on the ground.

(got one)

Sounds super fun :D How often does that happen?

But then, the first time I met him, was at Wacken 2007. The legs could do nothing but walking at a measured pace (though I thought that was still pretty impressive), and had to be recharged every evening.

I mean - 40k is set in the year 40k, roughly, right? We've got a lot of time.

I don't!

It seems like the greatest thing lagging behind is society. What the reddit poster did was possible 20 years ago, but likely would have caused wistful maidens to faint, etc.

Yep.

I have 2 RFID implants and I don't mention it to most people because I have genuinely gotten bad reactions from even other software engineers.

It's a pretty minor 'modification' but people get really weirded out about non-medical implanted tech.

I am a body purist, but I understand why people are curious about these things. More functional than navel piercings, at least.

I point out to people that we've got lots of cyborgs. Just look at everyone with an artificial pancreas in the form of a glucose pump.