Reply To: Luddite Geeks
I don’t mean artificial body parts that mimic bits we already have, a la Granny’s hip, in that sentence you quoted of me perhaps a better choice of words would have been “sentient robots.”
Cyborgism worries me when it crosses the line of replacing lost or broken body parts with an artificial substance and becomes about enhancing or upgrading the basic human attributes, i.e. bionic arms with whirring blades a la Tank Girl, bionic eyes with nightvision etc etc.
I guess the reason this bothers me is that I believe we are the way God made us and this design shouldn’t be improved on.
I’m not against artifically helping the blind, disabled, and generally people with bits of them that don’t work right! ^_^