aris_tgd: Personal avatar Phumiko (phumiko)
aris_tgd ([personal profile] aris_tgd) wrote in [personal profile] sqbr 2013-04-21 02:42 am (UTC)

That article is awesome; thanks for linking it!

On a selfish note, I'm still attempting to get all the angles I can on some worldbuilding that involves a culture clash between two civilizations with advanced medical technology: one that believes that everyone naturally wants to look and be "fit" all the time and utilizes surgery for everyone who can afford it, and one that believes in using as much adaptive technology as possible and saving the surgery for when you feel, y'know, sick or pain. Admittedly the hardest thing is not just going "YOU ARE WRONG ABOUT EVERYTHING" at the first civ and setting up the second as Most Enlightened And Perfect...

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