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Also called I am distracted/tired/etc. and wasn't reading well enough. Contacts definitely make you a technologically augmented individual, I just wouldn't go so far as to call you a cyborg, yet

I think the general rule of thumb requires some form of more substantial attachment. Like surgery, or some sort of interface (i.e. prosthetics that can be swapped out). Contact lenses are the full body saran wrap of vision correction, but like saran wrap, are just a tool.

The major problem with removing the brain is that it shuts down and suffers permanent damage fairly quickly without an uninterrupted supply of oxygen. Which leaves a very small window to complete such operations.

Enough of a window, though. Repeating, they managed to swap heads on a pair of primates already, quite a whiles back, without notable issue insofar as I can recall. I'd also imagine we've got ways of oxygenating an interim medium of some sort by this point, if it came to that. Whatever it'd take to keep stuff from breaking down during the operation.

E: And especially considering computer assisted surgeries are a technique that's been improving recently... the amount of window necessary is shrinking. S'not actually a meaningful issue, basically.

There's also someone who grafted a special camera onto their eye socket, which is supposed to be the first step towards one of those nifty eye augmentations you see in fiction.

From what I recall, we'll likely have replacements, at the least, within a decade, two on the outside (E: Ninja'd, and closer than I thought ). If my memory's not failing me, they're already making pretty good progress on resolution. Basic (replacement, if nothing else) cybereyes are going to be in most of our lifetimes if things continue apace. We've already got functioning (to varying degrees) linked up prosthetics, iirc. Another 20, 30 years... hell, I wouldn't be entirely surprised if we've got the raw technology (if not quite the methodology or will to go through with it) for a full or near full body replacement, right now.

It wouldn't work too well and probably wouldn't last very long, but...

Point being, limb replacement -- possibly even cosmetic or enhancement replacements -- is very, very close, at least insofar as the technology goes. Economical/legal/socially acceptable might be further off, but yeah. Even with all the incredibly stupid inefficiencies we've built into the global medical research field, we are doing some really absolutely incredible things right now, and either in the active process of making or nearing the cusp of making very serious breakthroughs in the realm of cybernetics.

I just remembered a Goku x Anne Frank fanfiction.

When the fuck did I read a Goku x Anne Frank fanfiction.

Does it actually exist?* If so, you can probably at least check when it was written. Give yourself a base maximum for how far back it was you read it.

... and, uh. Was it any good?

*I ask this because I've actually dreamt up the existence of a few fanfics over the years. It's incredibly frustrating to do that and then spend several hours/days/weeks looking for it, before you finally remember your recollection of it didn't come from conscious memories.

*checks* No, no. No pedophilic homosexual urges toward svelte young orphan gymnasts. I'm good. Not the batman.