Oh, digital world….how complicated and helpful you can be sometimes. And we gradually become more and more dependent on it. My iPhone, which I had for 5 years now, has been working perfectly throughout all these years. However, it has a 16GB memory space and that is why I have to keep all of my photos on iCould. And it is a huge disadvantage sometimes! I always have to have internet connection in order to view images and videos from previous years or sometimes even weeks. When my internet is week or the traffic ends closer to the end of the month, there is absolutely no way any of these files can load. If I can’t access such simple things without thinking “will it load this time?”, how can I rely on my organs or limbs that someday may be connected to the same iCloud?

            Of course, there is a long way to this matter. It won’t happen in a day or, probably, not even in 50 years. However, as the world progresses, there is no doubt that this could become our grand-grand children’s reality in the future. First of all, all types of Clouds must evolve to the extent that we won’t even consider them failing. The companies should work out a system that will become absolutely non-stoppable, without glitches or interruptions. Otherwise casualties from electronic/digital parts of the body will become a daily thing. Another question emerges from the financial side. What if an owner of that body organ won’t be able to pay monthly subscription? I assume that before purchasing one, there has to be some kind of insurance that will cover payments in order to keep that person living. Before receiving a limb or an organ, health insurance does a background check if this person has a stable income or savings that will cover necessity for many years ahead. If, for some reason, this person fails to pay one or more payments, a health insurance just covers that on time. With that, okay, the insurance pays to the company, but how can insurance company benefit from this? For the first two months it will be a savior due to the fact that this person was paying the company its insurance fee, but what next? What if the limb or organ receiver lost all of their possessions via a poker game and now is bankrupt? Should government step in and have similar programs as SNAP (the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program)? In my vision, this could be a good alternative and safe solution. However, in this case, there may appear lots of cases with frauds and just desire to be supported by government all the way through. But it is kind of a human factor, isn’t it? Nothing that is not happening right now. 

            In sum, novel questions will appear with transition to digital prosthetics/cybernetics, but all that will come gradually and will have its own benefits and drawbacks. The society, notwithstanding, will always have the same behavior patterns that will either stand on the way or assist in the progress.