The future is already here – it is just unevenly distributed
William Gibson
The best example of a cyborg is, in my opinion, people with a pacemaker. Helping such a vital organ as the heart with a machine is really an example of human and machine in symbiosis. Pacemakers have been around for more than 50 years now, quite remarkable!
Human pioneer cyborgs
Here are some examples of current pioneers with different cyborg operations. Four very different men with four very different kinds of technology, but they all have one thing in common: they’re cyborgs.
Meet the real-life human cyborgs | News | TechRadar UK
Cyborg Insects
Cyborg insects – the next version of military scouts? A bug controlled remotely through a chip implanted in its optic lobes and flight muscles. Well, it is typical that military applications are the first and only things that we think of.
It is also typical that it is the military research that gets the money. We don’t need war time to make use of these things, do we? I can think of several situations where an insect with a camera can be used, if we can control where it is flying (or walking).
Cyborg Insects in Lab environment
It is easy to get ideas of how to use these cyborgs but what can go wrong? If they are used for making attacks in war situations, many things can go really wrong. If a big swarm of cyborg insects is on a mission and the stearing control is lost. Yes, anything can happen depending of what kind of weapons they are equipped with. I hope they never will be equipped with chemical or biological weapons. Well, they are biological weapons by themselves…
Some links:
Cyborg – human or machine? (check out the two videos at the end of the article!)
Does it have to be insects? NO:
