technoculture203-09

Today, visionaries see a bright future in which technology will be so advanced that it will be able to serve as part of our e.g. extra limbs or a program which could control the human mind to learn or do things in minutes which would usually take a while for the human mind to grasp. But is the altering of human nature with the help of machinery really going to bring human kind further or make us smarter? Or perhaps it may just do the opposite. E.g. With the invention of a calculator people don’t need to think over their equations before getting to the immediate answer, hence without much thought process involved they do not learn as much as if they could have without the availability of technology. Just like maths, life is also full of equations for which rely on technological advancements to help us ‘short-cut’ our ways through them. Sure it saves time and the massive headache of having to sit there learning and solving the different tasks which life imposes upon us, yet the knowledge and the skills we develop will be far greater than that of being fully reliant on technology to it for us. Thus when receiving the question as to whether or not I would consider myself a cyborg in any way my answer would be NO. A cyborg is defined as a creature which is part human part machine. Therefore if the machine is such a significant part of this creature it would inevitably die if that part were to be taken from it. Take away my machinery or my technology and I would survive. Because no matter how far technology advances, human nature is that to which technology could never live up to.