Cyborg virus catching.
Sunday, August 16, 2009 by May Rose
The idea of being a cyborg is kind of scary. Had you asked me before the lecture what I thought I cyborg was then I would have shown you this picture from Fritz Lang’s Metropolis(1927):
Max Moore writes in one of his blogs that: “Progress should not bow to fear, but should proceed with eyes wide open.” Technology is apart of everyday life and will continue to be more prominently. Being a cyborg doesn't sound so bad, just as long as I don't end up as a file on someones computer.
Donna Haraway writes that the cyborg is “...a creature of social reality as well as a creature of fiction.” Perhaps it was a mixture of the crazy dreams of Scientists and Science-fiction writers who came up with this idea. The picture above tends to relate more to Max Moore’s dream of being able to upload yourself into a computer. What if one day humans were nothing more then computer programmes who could be downloaded into a machine like body; From here if they didn’t like their shell then they could go shopping for a new one the way we go shopping for clothes now. Perhaps we could all end up like the people in The Matrix:
Max Moore writes in one of his blogs that: “Progress should not bow to fear, but should proceed with eyes wide open.” Technology is apart of everyday life and will continue to be more prominently. Being a cyborg doesn't sound so bad, just as long as I don't end up as a file on someones computer.
Here is a link to Max More's blog if anyone is interested: http://strategicphilosophy.blogspot.com/
Here is a link to a video on youtube about cyborgs: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urVXWUD8Q3Y&feature=fvst