What is a cyborg?
Cyborg is an organism with artificial and organic ingredients. The term "Cyborg" was first created by scientists NASA, Nathan Klin and Manfred Clynes in aircraft paper written in 1960, which discussed the potential benefits of the machine/human hybrid that could work in space. In sci-fi and popular culture, cyborgs are often depicted as beings of "half men" with robotic or bionic implants as Robocop of the same name from 1987 or 1970s, six million dollars and a biological woman. Cyborgs are sometimes confused with Androids that are designed to resemble human beings such as data from television series from the 80s and 90s, Star Trek: The Next Generation. Cochlých implant. Although the average prosthesis does not fall within the definition of cyborg technology, a prosthetic device that uses sensors to replicate human natural walking, such as the C-Foot system, is considered to be modern cyborg application.
In addition to restorative technologies, Cyborg applications are subject to a person's functioning over the natural capabilities of the body. For example, the development of the Radiofrequency Identification (RFID) brand, which is on the verge of becoming a fruitful cyborg application, is micro technology implanted in a human being or animal to potentially store information. Opponents of such technologies point to a potential invasion of privacy that could occur with such equipment; This could become a defacto application for monitoring humans and animals.
Another controversial cyborg application has the use of insects and animals in the military for tactical combat purposes. For example, the United States Defense Agency, Advanced Research Projects (DARPA) defense, began to explore the possibility of implanting insects with Pupal data sensors for supervision purposes, and also implant sharks with similar cyborg sensors to detect explosives underwater.
1985 essay written by Donna Haraway, "Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology and Socialist-Feminism at the end of the twentieth century" presented a positive view of cyborgs in the context of feminist theory. Haraway theorized that the metaphorical concept of cyborgs means the predominance of historical and patriarchal restrictions of the natural sex.