Tuesday, November 11, 2008
In my ongoing struggle to keep blogging, I have logged on from work so I may actually get something done.
A couple weeks ago, my professor posted an article about Steve Mann, the Cyborg. Now, I get lost whenever politics come into play, so I'm going to ignore that part of the article and comment on the technology and function of Mr. Mann. If I want to think outside the box, then I'd think anyone with any sort of unorganic part of them would be a cyborg. This means people with prosthetic limbs, pace-makers, replacement hearts and the like could all be considered cyborgs in my book. Similarly, scifi movies always make cyborgs as people who have lost some sort of part in their body and replaced those parts with mechanical ones. What I like about Steve Mann is that he is replacing non-essential parts just to make his world better. I myself would love a pair of glasses that turns ads into some sort of relaxing image. Cyborgs obviously aren't very far off if you think of it in little ways. You don't need to be half machine to be one. It's just that the transformation as far as history and the passing of time is concerned, doesn't think of people as cyborgs. They probably never will be thought of in that way. Perhaps in the future when people really are half machine, they still won't be thought of as cyborgs, just as people who needed a little extra help in/on their bodies.
