BinaryMage
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Fair enough. I have a feeling that soldiers and people working with high risk of losing their body parts will prefer mechanical limbs and augmentations, whereas people working in "softer" industries will go for regen. Probably we might see something in between, for example titanium bones but fat and muscle otherwise.
It could certainly happen that way. I think we also need to figure in cost. Cutting-edge mechanical limbs are likely to be expensive, though once they've been around for awhile, older models will probably become affordable. Regeneration will probably require some sort of DNA modification, which probably won't end up being that costly. (All that is necessary is an artificial virus that will go through the body modifying the DNA)