Редактирование: Ghost in the Shell (раздел)

==Transhumanist Elements==

During the title sequence of the original movie, we see what appears to be a combination of [[mind uploading]] and [[Avatarists|avatarist]] technology taking place. The "ghost" is the consciousness and the "shell" refers to the cybernetic/cyborg body.

Tosuga, a recurring character in each of the movies, is mentioned to be "almost completely human, except for a slight brain augmentation". Hinting that in this world, perhaps although human in appearance, many people are not. 

Kusanagi and the other team members often have information sent to them via either wires in the back of the neck, similar to those in [[The_Matrix_(series)|The Matrix]], or via "The Net". Major Kusanagi also controls a van by using her mind. Mind to mind communication is used regularly too.

There is reference to simulated experience. Implanted thoughts and memories similar to those found in Total Recall, and described in future of the mind by [[Michio Kaku]]. [[Simulated memories]] are often used as a key plot device. In the original movie, There is a garbage man who believes he has a wife and kid, but the police tell him he has lived alone for 10 years with no wife or child.

There are constant references to cyborgs and [[cyborgisation]]. The movies often also go into the potential ethics of both. In the 1995 movie, the general questions where she comes from, wondering if what is inside her head came from a previous life, or if she is perhaps entirely synthetic. Asking Batou "ever seen your own brain?" she then wonders if a cyber brain could generate its own "ghost". There is also a kind of cyborg taser used frequently. Black market cyborg upgrades are also mentioned in the movies.

In the first movie, Project 2051 at one point says; "you will never find a corpse, for I have never possessed a body" referring back to Kusanagi's point about [[consciousness]]. The cyborg also talks about [[Sentient rights|sentient rights]], demanding asylum as a sentient being.

Near the start of the third movie, while Kusanagi is speaking to a council member, he mentions that; "Council functions are now performed by [[AI]]". Something which has been a topic of interest to those working in that field and also with [[AGI]].

Also in The New Movie, There is a reference to the "third world" but not as we may use the term. It is in regards to what sounds like a permanent virtual world or afterlife where ghosts who are dead can live on. This perhaps means that the "worlds" in the new movie are ordered thus; World 1, the "real world" or the world as we know it, the net may be assumed to be world 2, and world 3 as the simulated world.

===Other future tech featured===

* Diving apparatus - used because cyborgs are too heavy to swim.
* Chemical implants that allow alcohol to be broken down in seconds
* Controlled metabolism
* Computer enhanced brain
* Cybernetic bodies
* Regular high level maintenance of cyborgs
* Autonomous drone-like tanks
* Helicopters with aeroplane and/or animal like wings
* Gadget hands to can type at high speeds
* Thermo-optic camouflage
* High velocity bullets
* AR Glasses
* Infrared Eye Lenses
*'''Batou's''' dog is hinted at being a clone
* Heli-bicycle
* Batous eyes can scan crime scenes, pulling information. Togusa also receives a scan of another crime scene via the wires in the back of the head.
* Holographic 3D photographs
* The use a holographic imaging to analyze crime scenes.
* Holographic meetings and "lobbies".
* Bullet-proof cars
* Shark like submarine