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Cyborg

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The reason why I chose this article was because I always found future technology such as robots and cyborgs interesting. We don't know what the future holds and rather than that scaring me, I anticipate what kind of creations people will make. This article matters because machines like cyborgs, will be efficient and possibly essential to humanity. We can use cyborg technology to replace certain parts of the human body and we can also put it inside our bodies to do things such as buying products, opening doors, swiping cards, and etc. with just the wave of a hand. My preliminary impressions of this was that it was something that can only happen in the future but actually, people are finding out ways on how to use it in our daily lives in the current century.

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A cyborg is an individual that possess both natural and machine parts. While a lot of us believe that there are no such thing as cyborgs in today's century, it's actually possible that there may be. As long as one possesses a artificial cardiac peacemaker or implantable cardioverter-defibrillator, they could be considered a cyborg. We put machinery in our bodies as a way to make things easier for us and we are evolving almost all the time.

Cyborgs usually have the stereotypical mechanical body that is shown in most science fiction movies. This became widespread before WWII and people are currently attempting to create it. Philip Kennedy managed to successfully create the first cyborg by using Johnny Ray, who unfortunately died in 2002. Animals such as jellyfish have also used prosthetics which enhanced their speed while only using twice the metabolic energy. Some practical applications that cyborgs have been involved in are medicine, military, sports, art, body modification, space, and cognitive science. Technology will be greatly advanced in the future and the government will have to find a way to keep up with its fast developments. The Cyborg Foundation has then been created in 2010 to help people become cyborgs and apply cybernetic extensions to the body.

~ Dianna Gabonelas