Are We All Cyborgs? and Do We Want To Be?

  Are we all Cyborgs? Or does it take weaponry wired into our bodies, an artificial leg or arm to make us so?

 Can you understand this?:

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... if yes, then you are a Cyborg, because what I simply said was,

"Hello, I  am a Cyborg and am not human"

  In today's world we couldn't function without technology. If we had no internet for example the business industry would cease to operate, students wouldn't be able to look on Wikipedia and communication around the world would come to a sudden stop. With this in mind, are we all sort of Cyborgs, dependent on technology to get us through a general working day from waking up (alarm clock on phones), getting to work (via cars/public transport), actually working (computers), and coming home again? In a sense yes, but if we look at the definition of a Cyborg...

"a human being whose body has been taken over in whole or in part by electromechanical devices"

                           ...we're not really...

                                         ...but in a way, our lives have been "taken over" by electromechanical devices, ok, maybe not the electromechanical devices part (yet!) but by technology definitely - you know what I mean right? Take a look at these two pictures:

We may not look like this Cyborg
(granted its from Star Trek but that's
beside the point)
but...

...we do look like this - Bluetooth headsets.
All businessmen around the world beating the rat-race to work.

  Do we want to be cyborgs? Do you? You may want too in the future because there are some pretty awesome stuff that has been developed. If you have seen the Alien films then this vehicle may seem familiar to you:

The Power Loader

Or even the Avatar film:

Similar sort of thing

  These may seem fictional and just in films but in actual fact its now becoming a reality. In Japan (of course) developments are being made on a full body suit called HAL (Hybrid Assisted Limb): 

In the video I like when he says, "expand the physical functions of humans". This is exactly what a Cyborg is, its an extension to the human capabilities - and the fact that he calls us 'humans' implying that we are secondary now :)

This is tech taken from Science Fiction i.e. Robocop (without the weapons - yet!) and implemented into reality for practical use, I mean it will help the less capable and in the future may allow individuals to walk again after being paralysed. But still, is a Cyborg someone that cant live without being 'connected'?

How far will Cybernetics go in the future? 

  Imagine this, your home one day and your browsing the web. Your interested in an an item from an online shop and can spare a mere $30 000 - you add it to your shopping list! A few weeks later you receive a package in the post and your so happy! - its you new pair of Bionic Eyes! 

In the future we may be able to shop for these 'enhancements' making us even more like a Cyborg - check out the mock website : The Bionic Body Shop.

   Imagine this if you will, you have just had an operation for a new set of bio-mechanical organs keeping you alive for longer and need to keep paying in instalments for you to keep them or else Jude Law (erm I mean Remy from the company you bought the organs from) will burst into your house and reclaim their property. Yea - creepy! This is the basic idea of the 2010 film Repo Men, see the trailer here:

  I think I will finish here, but its interesting and abit creepy in my opinion to what is available, what is going to be available and what will be available in the future!