The process of merging has already begun.

We are very closely connected with our smartphones. What is still missing is a physical fusion aka transplantation.

Perhaps the present can be compared to a phase in which we have created important basic applications for what we will later implement in our physical body (navi, wiki, calendar, email, multimedia applications, image recognition and analysis a la Google Lens, virtual folders for storing and sharing information...).

Very many people are already taking care not to be separated from their smartphone. This also has many obvious and commonly known advantages. So currently the open beta is already running.

I do not want to hurt anyone and apologize if I hurt anyone with the following.

Maybe there is still a key technology missing. The BCI. As with prosthetics, it is people with their backs against the wall who are voluntarily testing the latest technologies. They are also the ones to whom we as a society are happy to provide these technologies as compensation for a stroke of fate, if they so desire.

This application of these technologies to themselves represents a massive intervention in the organism. You lose something and you gain something. Lower leg prostheses enable their owners to achieve better results in several disciplines of athletics, which is why people with these prostheses cannot participate in competitions with people without these prostheses. It would be unfair.

On the other hand, at present it is not possible to receive and process sensory impressions from these pieces of physical hardware.

Currently, the break evan point has not yet been reached here, where healthy people begin to seriously consider trading their sensory ability for better performance in athletics.

Prostheses are still considered unnatural to some people. Perhaps they should be seen more. Perhaps now is not the time for a widespread shift in perceptions of prosthetics, which I believe is coming.

A BCI could (if a prosthesis is equipped with appropriate sensors) calculate and simulate emo sensations to the brain. Also with BCI, it will be people who colloquially have their backs against the wall and who we as a society want to help improve their situation.

Yes I think a successive fusion has begun. Perhaps now is not the time for a widespread shift in perceptions of prosthetics, which I believe is coming. We will greatly change our image of what it means to be human. But that won't feel bad at the time. Perhaps the curve of genetic and implant changes in the human body is also exponential.

We are in an open beta right now and with market readiness of a key technology, a transformation point could be reached quickly.