Natural-Born Cyborgs-Minds,Technologies,and the Future of Human Intelligence

TZ70AA03-2001 Cross-platform Publishing and Content Management

Christos Laoutaris

Summary:

One may think that cyborg is only implants in the human body made of metal materials or processors. And that’s what a professor called Kevin Warwick tried to do with his experiments. He implanted chips under his skin. That allowed him to open doors, turn bedroom lights on and off; also in medical cases, people with heart implants and chest monitors monitoring heart rates and communicating data to the patient’s cell phone could be examples that we can all be cyborgs in this world.

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 We are at the foothill of the era of wearable computing, wireless devices, intelligent environments, impants that can be controlled by thought, and the distance between humans and all sort of tools comes closer and closer every day . This combination of very adjustable brains and increasingly responsive tools creates an opportunity for even closer kinds of human-machine merger, and as Clark as says, such a merge is entirely natural.

My thoughts about the book

The only meaning that I had in my mind for the word Cyborg, it is from science fiction movies, like Robocop, the murdered cop who was re-created as a super-human cyborg.  I never thought of the aspects that the Andy Clark is presenting at his book and that’s why this book was fun to read. What I got after reading it(using the writer’s quote that: “We are all cyborgs”) I realized that we all use technology as an extention of ourselves and we don’t even think that we are using technology, its more like an everyday activity, like drinking water. For example receiving calls and talking on mobile, isnt consider anymore as futuristic and awesome but more or less an everyday activity.

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