Considering Kurzweillian mental digitization and upload.
There's a story by Harlan Ellison called "How's the Night Life in Cissalda" where a returning astronaut returns to Earth with an alien parasite that binds to a host sexually. They separate him, but eventually, it splits and connects to the rest of intelligent life on Earth (humanity on down), but the astronaut, having been separated, remains rejected.
If my brain is non-destructively scanned and modeled into Cyber Dave, it could engage in a massively-beyond-massively-multiplayer online game as core reality, GTA with infinite lives and no consequences. The Matrix where everyone is Agent Smith. Or it can connect to a body and engage with the old and slow real world.
That is where Meat Dave, augmented or not, could only be a visitor.
I'm seeing it as a massive fork of humanity, and the part that isn't will feel like they're stuck at the velvet rope, denied access to the incredible party that is the future.
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