To be, or not to be - that is the question

“To be, or not to be”, this is the question I asked to myself, when I was reading Japanese comics “The Ghost in the Shell” few years ago. It is a Sci-Fi theme, depicted a highly mechanized human society in near future.

Well, I have to admit that I am would quite happy if I had a chance to be ‘upgrade’ into a Cyborg, just like those characters in that comics, jumping and flying in the concrete jungle; seeing things miles away, and be able to cloak whenever I want to.

I have little resistance to the idea of the Cyborg, because I really think what the most important thing is what does “Human” mean to us, rather than what it is. The form can change over the time, as long as the content remains. Back into history, the physical condition of human being itself have been changed a lot, as from apes to what we are look like today, we still call ourselves – human. It was that first sense of self-esteem, made us different with other creatures.

In fact, human has been using all kinds of man-made devices to help us overcoming difficult, such as medical devices to patients and disabilities; synthetic materials to cosmetic surgery, and so on. Cyborg just pushes the boundary a little bit further.

I still remember one article I read from a Sci-Fi magazine few years ago, it predicts human will eventually ‘evolve’ into a form of Electronic Ents, which is more suitable for living in the universe.