Reply To: Luddite Geeks
Sure cyborgs are cool in songs but I don’t really want me or my children to live in a world where they actually exist.
I’m not terribly bothered by grandma’s titanium hip if it gets her out of her wheelchair, you know? Personally, I’m mostly original parts, except for some fillings and crowns and a lingual bar, but various friends have screws, plates, and wires attached to their bones. Plenty of people have pacemakers; fewer have cochlear implants. My eyeglasses don’t really count, since they’re not permanently attached, but neither are most prosthetic limbs.
I suspect that the move to what we would perceive as cyborgism is going to be gradual and cosmetically unobtrusive… and some aspects (dentures, prostheses) date back centuries.