I actually don't see cybernetics happening anytime soon. We don't have any good way of meshing metal and circuit with flesh and bone. We'll get stuff like regenerative stem cells sooner than cybernetic arm replacements. Anyway, eclipse phase is a smorgasboard of near-future technology and ideas drawn from a lot of scifi out there, probably the one that's very close to fruition today but not quite here yet are AI muses - AI companions you grow up with through your entire life, like a second part of yourself almost. I am basically already using presently existing AI like this in a rudimentary way, so I'd say this is tech that's going to be inevitable. Also we have like 1/3rd of the major technical achievements of star trek already. We're just missing - what? Faster than light travel, tricorders, teleporters... is that it? Holodecks, replicators, and AI are now all existing in rudimentary form, and actually our AI right now is basically what the starship computer was in trek.

>>2840 Yeah that's why I'm avoiding cybernetics. I just do that think you can weld a bunch of metal & wires to a person

>>2791 hard-kill laser countermeasures on literally everything

>>3062 but the laser countermeasures are themselves countered by spraying sand at their lenses

>>2840 Tricorders are also very feasible. Raman spectroscopy modules can scan an object with a laser and determine its chemical composition at range, which is most of the sci-fi elements of a tricorder. I'm more optimistic about cybernetics. Prosthetic arms can already be bonded directly into bone, using titanium. There are sensors that pick up muscle signals directly through the skin.

>>3104 my only concern about prosthetics is the battery life. Imagine needing to be plugged into the wall for an hour so that your arm works well enough to continue working in excel

https://youtu.be/c-pWliufu6U?si=9IoKm0JUCYgoLLEr At this point biotech is being held back more by culture than by technology. You can include a lot of weird tech that's alive and I'd believe it.

It's unfortunate that not many startups are actually doing anything interesting or building anything real. I would have suggested looking on xitter for more technologies and ideas for this setting, but it's all just retards wrapping chatgpt and trying to make it take someone's job.