Originally Posted by
BootStrapTommy
Prosthetics have already reached the point of cybernetic limbs. Ones people can control with their minds.
Yet we're still far from FTL space travel. So that's why cyborgs. Because the cybernetic singularity is much closer than interstellar travel.
Plus, ignoring cybernetics would be losing an interstellar arms race. But humans emerging as genetically perfect, augmented by machinery? They'd be even more deadly.