Hokay Chakra.
It was the “little more than robots” line, which has negative connotations, coming after “enhanced with artificial body parts”
The “lost or never had” coupled with the final “look and feel more human” to me kinda sounds like you are equating a state of ‘being human’ with a list of abilities. To walk is human. To see clearly is human. To hear, to speak, is human. etc. And if a list of abilities is all it means to be human then well, we are getting more human all the time…
I mean, compare us now, in literate land, with Gug the cave man who could neither read nor write. Being able to do both, I’m then more human than Gug…?
Then why haven’t the nutritionally enhanced babies of the last century or so freaked you out…? I mean - go into some ye-oldy-worldly village from yesteryear and look at the height of the doorways…? They were all fucking midgets compared to us.
Learning to read and write involves if you like “programming the brain”. What’s the difference really, between spending a year or two at primary school learning to read, and downloading the skill straight from the future-net in a couple of minutes…? Both, to work, involve changing the structure and number of connections in our brains - Associating specific recurrent and consistant shapes with already present sequences of sounds. Both make us ‘smarter’ if smarter is reading books.
To be honest, a whole bunch of people on this planet lead really shitty lives. Monotonous, no escape, no choice to be other than they were condemned to be at birth, with no possibility of the system binding them changing within their lifetimes. If a perfectly realised, perceptionally indistinguishable from reality, consistant virtual world, with the possibilty of a more diverse choice-tree could be built - and made freely available - then great, a big ball of anguish the size of Africa suddenly evapourates. In the Matrix, I always thought Morpheus and Co. were the stupid ones.
And we don’t already have that…? Right now…? 
I think you underestimate how hard happiness is to manufacture. Heroin makes you happy, but you always have to up the dose.
Pff. That’s always been the deal. Convenience vs. control. And yet the Amish still exist. We adopt most technology for the same reason we adopt anything, to stay competitive.
