It's worse for A.C. She's deliberately using memetic pressure (given she 98.2% handwavium) to pull herself BACK from the edge. This leaves her with a LOT of conflicting desires (mostly good, in a 'thank she's on our side, the poor sods' way).
The main thing is the difficulties in procreation weren't seen initially. A.C.'s own scans of her body showed she was perfectly fertile. And she is. It'll just take a bitlot of effort, and a significant change in point-of-view.
I'd like to point out the homeostasis effect is ALSO one of the prime reasons a second biomod is not possible. The remodding process restarts the original biomod process (bypassing the block), remolding machines (based on the CGM) overrides the block by changing from the outside with a LOT of wave involved.
As to cultural homeostasis, that's where things like the Whole Fenspace Catalogue come in. All the big players in handwavium tech are trying to understand and reverse engineer it. It's more than likely there'll be a point where hard tech hits the same level as wave tech. At which point we don't NEED the wave.
At which point the wave will facilitate another jump and the cycle continues.
All this seems to be leading to the point that biomods become a rarer thing post 2020's. Home grown medical tech will replace the need for it in most cases. Leaving accidents, emergency transformations, and those who want specific things.
The main thing is the difficulties in procreation weren't seen initially. A.C.'s own scans of her body showed she was perfectly fertile. And she is. It'll just take a bitlot of effort, and a significant change in point-of-view.
I'd like to point out the homeostasis effect is ALSO one of the prime reasons a second biomod is not possible. The remodding process restarts the original biomod process (bypassing the block), remolding machines (based on the CGM) overrides the block by changing from the outside with a LOT of wave involved.
As to cultural homeostasis, that's where things like the Whole Fenspace Catalogue come in. All the big players in handwavium tech are trying to understand and reverse engineer it. It's more than likely there'll be a point where hard tech hits the same level as wave tech. At which point we don't NEED the wave.
At which point the wave will facilitate another jump and the cycle continues.
All this seems to be leading to the point that biomods become a rarer thing post 2020's. Home grown medical tech will replace the need for it in most cases. Leaving accidents, emergency transformations, and those who want specific things.