Cyborg?
What makes me a cyborg? I never figured that I could be considered one. I’m not a very well constructed, detailed replication of a human being, made of mechanical and synthetic materials, combined with human attributes to make it seem as human and, or as life-like as possible with the ability to enhance, surpass or aide human abilities or replace a need for an actual human. That’s the definition I gained from pop culture, media and art. After researching the actual meanings behind cyborg, or a cyborg, beyond someone’s explanation translated through their imagination, I understand it a lot better now and why I am one.
Pop culture, media and art have it right as to what a cyborg is. A cyborg is a combination of humanity or life-likeness with a synthetic and mechanical base that produces a human or life-like response. Some of their depictions of a cyborg aren't the complete definition, but are great examples of what a cyborg is; half human, half machine hybrid. I just never realized that being addicted to my Zune music player, my newly acquired social networking addiction and my ability to get attached to television shows made me a cyborg. To me a cyborg was made by a human and not so much an acquisition that a human can have. Now that I consider it, people who have to gain artificial body parts to help them or to live normal healthy lives can be considered cyborgs. I just never thought of these people as such because of how necessary and practical their need to be attached to technology was.
What makes me a cyborg? I never figured that I could be considered one. I’m not a very well constructed, detailed replication of a human being, made of mechanical and synthetic materials, combined with human attributes to make it seem as human and, or as life-like as possible with the ability to enhance, surpass or aide human abilities or replace a need for an actual human. That’s the definition I gained from pop culture, media and art. After researching the actual meanings behind cyborg, or a cyborg, beyond someone’s explanation translated through their imagination, I understand it a lot better now and why I am one.
Pop culture, media and art have it right as to what a cyborg is. A cyborg is a combination of humanity or life-likeness with a synthetic and mechanical base that produces a human or life-like response. Some of their depictions of a cyborg aren't the complete definition, but are great examples of what a cyborg is; half human, half machine hybrid. I just never realized that being addicted to my Zune music player, my newly acquired social networking addiction and my ability to get attached to television shows made me a cyborg. To me a cyborg was made by a human and not so much an acquisition that a human can have. Now that I consider it, people who have to gain artificial body parts to help them or to live normal healthy lives can be considered cyborgs. I just never thought of these people as such because of how necessary and practical their need to be attached to technology was.
Although I find it necessary to have my music player when I travel to work, take long monotonous and while I do chores at home, I am trying to reduce my use and reliance on some aspects of technology in my life. I have thought about what life was like before some of the advancements we currently have and how people lived without them. A great example was while I was watching a movie from the early eighties and realized that people had to find and use public telephones to make calls outside of their homes, compared to now having a cellphone and being able to move around and communicate with a desired party on the other end of the line. Technology has become such a major part of our current lives and and our future to come.
I'll try to reduce my unnecessary need or use of certain aspects of technology, but there is a side of me that still enjoys being cyborg-ish. I'm jus' not sure if that's a good side or the dark side.
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