Am i a cyborg?

Taking up the discussion from class this week about us being cyborgs, personally i don't consider myself as one but i do consider my self as a person that is highly reliant on technology.

First part of my argument i looked up the definition of "Cyborg". it states "a human being whose body has been taken over in whole or in part by electromechanical devices; "a cyborg is a cybernetic organism"


Next, i took that definition and applied it to my self, do i have a part of my body that has been "taken over by electromechanical device". No hence i don't consider my self as a cyborg!!

The argument Luke provided in class got me thinking, as technology develops to make our lives better, in the progress of this development, have we as human became highly dependent on technology to survive, transformation us cyborgs?

I!! personally believe that technology is just a developed or a upgrade to our old living styles. It's only created to make our lives more efficient, but it hasn't really changed the way we live our lives.

The use of ipods and computers are just an upgrade of the method of entertainment.

The development of new media is increasing but the dying out of the old is slow. The example i like to point out is the engagement of reading a book and listening to an ipod creates equal amount of enjoyment for the audience, as there are still many old and young people reading books on the bus. the musicals events and the theater provides equal value of enjoyment as the surround sound system, the music hasn't changed its just the situation and the form which we're consuming the media develops with technology.

The use of the library to collected information is equally important as collecting information online.
I once read an articles, can't remember exactly where but there was a statement that said the computer offers us an empty promise and that the internet doesn't contain any information until people started to upload information on to web pages through the use of HTML developed by Tim Burners Lee allowing viewer to contribute to the construction of information.

Suggesting the information on computer came from the audiences, who dumb ed down the information they collected from books.

Which concludes my point that the development of technology has just provided us with an more options and the fact that we can physically function without the support of technology suggested that we're not cyborgs, but we do rely on technology to maintain our way of life.

If technology one day got up and left the planet (concept from the transformers movies) we would still be able to survive, it would only take us a while to adapt to the new environment. hence we are not cyborgs and our interaction with technology is just a development from our old ways of living. We are still living human lives and not lives of robots.

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