We need three things to get to the bionic-cyberpunk future.
They need to be good, and reliable/safe, cheap.
Good: They need to be substantially better then the limb you had previously, otherwise you won't have doctors pluck out your eyes or amputate your legs.
Getting to human level in most regards in ten years feels unlikely but possible, but barring ASI getting superhuman stuff in ten years simply won't happen.
Reliable/safe: If I'm gunna get a cybernetic anything I have to know its going to be safe, not just in the short term, but in the long term as well. In stuff like cyberpunk 2077 a back alley doctor can just install this stuff into you in like ten minutes, in real life all surgery is risky and dangerous, there is risk of rejection, ect.
Even without the spectre of Genetic Opera type stuff (see example posted above) no way will ten years be enough for me to be confident.
Cheap: Just no. So many barriers.
The American healthcare system, the fact that they would need to make tens of millions of them to get cost down to acceptable levels, the fact that such large and complex devices would certainly be expensive even in the absolute best case, the fact that these systems wouldn't be disposable like modern cell phones, but would need to last for decades (which would lower sales, and thus drive up cost).
Eventually maybe, but all the stuff together means that it would take decades at best, and even then... for some strange reason people really don't want to amputate their own limbs.
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Biopunk is far more likely as noted.
Eyesight going? Just inject some stem cells (already a thing), and get some crispr done to get 20/5 eyesight just for good measure (still sci-fi, but the type of thing that is very much possible to see in ten years).
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