Sports was a discipline developed to expand, showcase and compete with the physical and mental limits of man. What happens to sports in a world where the human body and mind have no boundaries? Is there sports?
Thanks to the Brain Machine Interface, we will be able to use machines with the power of thought. We will move the robotic arms as if they were extensions of us. We will even feel the objects held by those arms. This technology, which is designed to adjust the pressure applied by robotic arms to the object they hold, now transmits this information directly to your mind with a similar method, thanks to Miguel Nicolesis and his team.
The opportunities this could offer people in the future are almost impossible. This sector, which started with paralyzed patients returning to life, will turn into all kinds of limbs that can be used in sexual lives. It falls within this spectrum in the sports industry.
Technology has always invaded sports. Breaking swimming records with swimsuit technology, formula racers having huge budget R&D studies, and the connection between hunting and weapon technology are good examples of these.
This gap will grow even larger in the future. New technologies will gradually bring the concept of “man and machine” closer to the concept of “man-machine”. So in this century, “Is basketball ever played with 2 humanoid and 2 robot arms? Is this a sport?” Questions like “why should I just play with my own body?” will take it.
In the future, the human-machine common form will stand at the center of the existence that human beings call “I”. Computers and machines everywhere, from the bedroom to the gym, will be a part of the perception called “ME”. And we’re not just talking about a few extra arms here. Car, computer, internet accounts… Everything will be connected to the human mind. This communication will affect human perception and mindset. It’s like the new generation thinking that they cannot have a “perception of self” without a mobile phone.
In sports competitions, this will bring certain restrictions and rules. For example, basketball can be played with four arms, or exoskeleton leg strengtheners can be worn to allow jumping much higher. Smart tights that increase speed for football, warrior robots placed inside boxers in boxing, fins worn as strips on the back in swimming… Our classical sports will either keep up with this technological movement or disappear.
On the other hand, for the new generation of people, the era of “watching and following someone else’s sports” may be over, as each individual will turn into a ‘super god’ and all opportunities will be offered to Homodeus. After all, why should someone watching the formula race be content with “watching” when he can progress at this pace himself and has all the educational, logistical and technological support for it…
Or maybe he has all the knowledge of the world, controls his mind and his environment and the computers in his body, lives in semi-divine bodies, as if he were living in Olympus… Will they watch 22 men chase a ball for 3 hours? Time will tell
Old sports will be rearranged according to the abilities of cyborg humans with technology, and sports and entertainment sectors that we cannot imagine now will most likely be formed.
After all, sports; It was a discipline developed to expand, exhibit and compete with the physical and mental limits of man. What happens to sports in a world where the human body and mind have no boundaries? Is there sports? Or can homosaphines, who are limited both physically and mentally like us, understand such a phenomenon?
