Living on Earth: Part 3: Cyborg

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Part 3: Cyborg

Published: February 6, 2018

A cyborg is a melding of human and machine to make a bionic human. More specifically, it is a human with bodily functions aided or controlled by technical devices. It sounds futuristic, but there are experiments going on today that could be the precursors to this medical technology. A professor in England has experimented with placing a silicon chip in his arm, which sent out a signal by radio to a computer showing his location. Some believe that computers will surpass humans, and that cyborgs could surpass humans evolutionarily. Therefore, they believe, the risk lies not in exploring this technology, but rather in ignoring it. Stephen Hawking, the famous physicist and science writer, said, "We have to have direct links between human brains and computers to keep ahead of advances in computer technology and stop intelligent machines from taking over the world."

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