What is Cyborg?

It was originally considered that Cyborg is the way to describe how people are recently adapting themselves with the new technology.

It’s a mixture of machine and human, that seems like a new creature of social reality or of imaginary tale.

“Cyborgs are symbiotic fusions of organic life and technological systems. From the Six-Million-Dollar man to the Terminator, cyborgs have populated the American cold-war space-race imagination for decades, evolving in tandem with our cultural attachment to technological solutions to life problems. … We are immersed in cyborgs; they saturate our language, our media, our technology, and our ways of being.” (Davis-Floyd and Dumit, 1998).[1]

Consequently; Cyborg has blurred the boundaries between people and machines. The nowadays panic is from losing the spirit of being human.

“..the cyborg accurately represents human selves as affected by techno-life and thus reliably orients us in the world we inhabit” (Brenda E. Brasher).[2]

Cyber Head

Cyborg Sections:

• Robotics: A robot is a mechanical or virtual, artificial agent. It is usually an electromechanical system, which, by its appearance or movements, conveys a sense that it has intent or agency of its own.[3]

• Bionics: was coined by jack E. Steele in 1958 originating from the greek word biov meaning unit of life. Bionics found in nature to the design of engineering systems and modern technology.[4]  

• Identity: Could be considered as a new method in identifying human character, it’s a virtual method in order to have a unique verification, ex: X ray, laser optics..etc [5]

• Cyber punk: is a type of science fiction and it is noted by science fiction and high technology used in the movies. The name is derived from cybernetics and punk and was originally introduced by Bruce Bethke  as the title of  his story Cyberpunk.[6]  

• Cyber perspectives:  Cyborg Perspective is the science which examines the correlation with the technology rights and how to use it in several areas such as medicine, which are important things to help people to do the tasks in their life.[7]

• Cybernetics: is the interdisciplinary study of the structure of complex systems, especially communication processes, control mechanisms and feedback principles. Cybernetics is closely related to control theory and systems theory.[8]   

• Cyber Classes: its an internet virtual classes made by universities or institutes in its educational system, to the students that they can not attend classes in person they can access from anywhere like home, they need some tools like microphone, speaker and webcam.[9]  

• Views: People's views about the interaction between technology and people, whether its a result of social economic needs or a forcible driven by the random technological inventions.[10]

References:

• [1] From T209 CD-ROM - Cyborg

• [2] From: website : Religion-online : Date: January 11-14, 1996..

Bibliography:

• [3]  Wikipedia (Robots).

• [4]  Wikipedia (Bionics).

• [5] Cyber-Identity

• [6]  Wikipedia (Cyber punk).

• [7]  Blackwell-synergy.(Cyber perspective).

• [8]  Wikipedia (Cybernetics).

• [9]  America Online - Online Campus  (offbeat-cyber-classes).

• [10]  taken from the T209 CD-ROM (Cyborg Views).

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