User:Emily/Thematic Project/Trimester 03/10
Cyborg
- short for cybernetic organism
- theoretical or fictional being with both organic and biomechatronic parts
- coined in 1960 by Manfred Clynes and Natham S. Kline
- "inner space" to "outer space" -> mind and matter
- != bionic
- the term has been applied to networks, such as road systems, corporations and governments
- also apply to micro-organisms
List of examples:
- human with an artificial cardiac pacemaker (measure voltage potentials in the body)
- cochlear implants
- human-technology mixtures?? phones, computers, internet?? (pen, paper, speech, language)
- Cybernetic technologies include highways, pipes, electrical wiring, buildings, electrical plants, libraries, and other infrastructure that we hardly notice, but which are critical parts of the cybernetics that we work within.
- contact lenses/ hearing aids/ intraocular lenses (humans with technology to enhance their biological capabilities)
- the full term "cybernetic organism" is used to describe larger networks of communication and control
- A corporation can be considered as an artificial intelligence that makes use of replaceable human components to function.
Ref
- Bruce Sterling's notion of Lobster --> looks inhuman externally but contains a human internally
- Cyborg: Digital Destiny and Human Possibility in the Age of the Wearable computer