Wednesday, August 20, 2014

                                                              Humans becoming Cyborgs 

According to John Desmond Bernal in "The World, the Flesh, and the Devil." The British scientist predicted that the human race would not be sustained by our biological bodies for long. Yes, he believed we would all be cyborgs, about 80 years ago from today to be exact. What is a Cyborg you may be thinking? Its basically a hypothetical person whose physical attributes breach the capabilities of the current human limitations by mechanical elements built into the body. For all science-fiction based fear that bionics inspire, technology is considered to be designed to benefit humanity. Brain implants to help those with Parkinson's disease or pacemakers to prevent heart attacks. Even prothestics hands to restore lost motion. These devices are the best of what Bernal might have hoped for when he talked about humans overocming their "limits".

This article had a sour taste, especially when we were given examples of how mechanical prosthetics could benefit man-kind. Humanity in which it evolves should not be tampered with the ideology of mechanical invention, why you ask? "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." Yes, we have obstacles in which we cannot progress forward completely as disease plague our World, love is turning into hate, and intelligence is seemingly distributed forever with negative effects. Despite the outcome of our progress it has done nothing but keep the constant cycle of our race intact. War is still dominant, the fact we still harbor a sense of hate towards other races or beliefs, and now we can bare witness to repugnant actions through a few clicks of our "technology". Knowing the thought of such mechanics will only lean towards something undesirable and constant battling of trying to prevent the eternity. We all will die, to stop such inevitable fate we have to first accept ourselves to benefit the future for man-kind. Because as I see it, we only live in the moment, and could care less of what the future harbors with our msitakes. 

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