Wait, South African runner Oscar Pistorius seems pretty similar to these once thought far-fetched fictional fabrications.



A cyborg. A human modified; integrated with machines to function as one. The cyborg is a “cybernetic organism, a hybrid of machine and organism, a creature of social reality as well as a creature of fiction” (Haraway).

Social reality? It's not like I see someone like Oscar Pistorius on every corner. Where else do we find cyborgs in day-to-day life?



In ourselves. We are cyborgs. We are modified; integrated with machines to function as one. Our actions extend beyond ourselves, into our phones, our computers. We store information – phone numbers, web addresses, and pictures in our machines, our new external brain storage. Machines modify the way we experience the world and function within it now more than ever before. The cyborg does not require metal body parts or a computer chip; it can access machines and rely on them for interaction while remaining physically unattached. Rather, the attachment is in behavior and mental reliance.