Cyborgs

The thought of scientists and artists creating cyborgs or integrating humans with machines is a scary thought.
There is just something creepy about mixing humans with metal, it is just so unnatural. But with the studies that were described in our reading for this week, it seems as though human society is heading that way.

There have been so many different stories about cyborgs and the most recent that I have heard of was featured on the news a few months ago. Japan has created a life-sized female robot who posses "human emotions" and she is used to look after the elderly. She looks like a real person, she even blinks and talks like a real person and she is used to make sure the elderly take their medicine and are well looked after.

Is this what society has come to? What happened to the good old days where people were looked after by real caregivers and family? Maybe the world has become too technological and work-focused so the family of these elderly people no longer have the time to care for them.

I think that is quite sad.
I definitely would not want my parents to end up in a robotic nursing home simply because I have no time to look after them myself.

It's funny to remember watching Terminator when I was younger and think "wow, what a great concept, but thank goodness our world will never end up like that! It's just impossible".
I guess anything is possible in this world and I will just have to wait and see if Terminator 1, 2, 3 and 4 unfolds in my near future. *Shudder*.