minutes!! Egyptian prosthetic toe1! The ancient Egyptians created the first primitive cyborgs by creating prosthetic to replace a lost body parts. These replacement toes became apart of the persons stride when walking." Y. Inui, I. Kravchuk and Dr. H. K. Ilter, 2013, Montreal!
many ways defines who we are. This presentation can be a beginning to understand the effects of objects and technology on humans and culture.! human-machine!
self! Cyborg feminism! Diminished reality! Animal cyborgs! Artificial consciousness ! ! Donna J. Haraway The unified human subject of identity has shifted to the hybridized posthuman of technoscience, from “representation” to “simulation,” “bourgeois novel” to “science fiction,” “reproduction” to “replication,” and “white capitalist patriarchy” to “informatics of domination.”!
News website http://news.discovery.com/history/ancient-egypt/ancient-egypt-wooden-toes- prosthetics-121002.htm. Accessed on 05.11.2013.! 2. Norbert Wiener, Cybernetics: Or the Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norbert_Wiener. Accessed on 05.11.2013.! 3. 5 artificial organs getting better by the day, Mar 19 2010, Dvice.com http://www.dvice.com/archives/2010/03/turn_yourself_i.php 4. Cure for epilepsy? New device can reduce, stop seizures, Nov 13 2012, FoxNews.com http://www.foxnews.com/health/2012/11/13/cure-for-epilepsy-new-device-can-reduce-stop- seizures/ 5. Great new videos of robot suit HAL, the exoskeleton from Cyberdyne, Mar 22 2011, singularityhub.com http://singularityhub.com/2011/03/22/great-new-videos-of-robot-suit-hal-the-exoskeleton-from- cyberdyne/ 6. For more information you can visit http://cyborganthropology.com/!
you willing to be a cyborg in the future?! ! What is the difference between the cyborg and the pure human in daily life?! ! Will there be a transient period for personality, emotion, habit, love, behaviour, sexuality while changing to pure human to cyborg?! ! Should we worry about the integration of cyborg technologies into the center of the brain?! discussion