A Bionic Person

Despite featuring Arnold Schwarzenegger as the Terminator, in the real world the T-1000,
made of liquid metal, would have definitely dominated as a bionic person. 

A Bionic Person? 

I support the development of a bionic person because the possibilities are too interesting not to explore.

Currently, we are already using bionics to positively improve lives with artificial limbs, and brain implants for stroke and brain damage recovery. I'm sure there are more. And if our military budget is any indications, I'm also sure that we are using bionics in military applications for more unsavory purposes, but I'm not familiar with those applications.

I think that Riccardo Sabatini, quoted in the Fast Company article, has a great perspective when he says, "The most incredible, sophisticated sci-fi-sounding things that you would hope to have are most probably already running in your body" (http://www.fastcompany.com/90374460/the-ethics-of-hacking-humanity-from-bionics-to-brain-chips). What if creating a "bionic person" were guided by illuminating and improving on the incredible systems already present in the human mind and body?

Does the military need bionic people? 

War is an outdated mode of behavior. That's a pretty clear fact, based on the now completely interconnected and interdependent way that all 7+ billion human beings exist in the world with everything else we depend on for our survival. 

I simply do not agree with the levels of military spending happening domestically and globally. The world is too small and interconnected to use military force as a tool of coercion or bargaining. The time was yesterday to legislate that bilateral discussion and mediation be our primary and secondary and tertiary means of global relations. 

Could our military become the "peace-keeping/making" force it might once have been? Could it evolve to become in the likeness of AmeriCorps or the UN peace-keeping forces? Perhaps then bionics could be employed to serve the greater health and prosperity of peoples and nations. But if the military-industrial complex is choosing to develop bionic applications with the intent for war and for destructive means, then I cannot support the technology. Even if it's developing robot-soldiers so real people don't have to fight (ie. unmanned drones), the principle that war and aggression are effective methods of peace-making or peace-keeping is fundamentally, antithetically flawed.