"In August 1998, a silicon chip was implanted
in my arm, allowing a computer to monitor me as I moved
through the halls and offices of the Department of Cybernetics
at the University of Reading, just west of London, where
I've been a professor since 1988. My implant communicated
via radio waves with a network of antennas throughout
the department that in turn transmitted the signals
to a computer programmed to respond to my actions. At
the main entrance, a voice box operated by the computer
said "Hello" when I entered; the computer
detected my progress through the building, opening the
door to my lab for me as I approached it and switching
on the lights. For the nine days the implant was in
place, I performed seemingly magical acts simply by
walking in a particular direction" - Prof. Warick
Haraway on the Cyborg:
A cyborg is a cybernetic mechanism, a hybrid of machine
and organism, a creature of social reality as well as
a creature of fiction. Social reality is lived social
relations, our most important political construction,
a world-changing fiction. The international women's
movements have constructed 'women's experience', as
well as uncovered or discovered this crucial collective
object. This experience is a fiction and fact of the
most crucial, political kind. [Simians, Cyborgs, and
Women: The Reinvention of Nature. Routledge, 1991, 149]
The cyborg is a cybernetic organism, a fusion of the
organic and the technical forged in particular, historical,
cultural practices. Cyborgs are not about the Machine
and the Human, as if such Things and Subjects universally
existed. Instead, cyborgs are about specific historical
machines and people in interaction that often turns
out to be painfully counterintuitive for the analyst
of technoscience. [Modest_Witness@Second_Millennium.
FemaleMan©_Meets_OncoMouse?: Feminism and Technoscience.
New York and London: Routledge, 1997. 51]
Cyborgs Are Already Here:
1. Cyborgs actually do exist; about 10% of the current
U.S. population are estimated to be cyborgs in the technical
sense, including people with electronic pacemakers,
artificial joints, drug implant systems, implanted corneal
lenses, and artificial skin. A much higher percentage
participates in occupations that make them into metaphoric
cyborgs, including the computer keyboarder joined in
a cybernetic circuit with the screen, the neurosurgeon
guided by fiber optic microscopy during an operation,
and the teen gameplayer in the local videogame arcarde.
"Terminal identity" Scott Bukatman has named
this condition, calling it an "unmistakably doubled
articulation" that signals the end of traditional
concepts of identity even as it points toward the cybernetic
loop that generates a new kind of subjectivity. [Katherine
Hayles, "The Life of Cyborgs: Writing the Posthuman."Cyborg
Handbook, 322]
2. This merging of the evolved and the developed, this
integration of the constructor and the constructed,
these systems of dying flesh and undead circuits, and
of living and artificial cells. have been called many
things: bionic systems, vital machines, cyborgs. They
are a central figure of the late Twentieth Century.
. . . But the story of cyborgs is not just a tale told
around the glow of the televised fire. There are many
actual cyborgs among us in society. Anyone with an artificial
organ, limb or supplement (like a pacemaker), anyone
reprogrammed to resist disease (immunized) or drugged
to think/behave/feel better (psychopharmacology) is
technically a cyborg. The range of these intimate human-machine
relationships is mind-boggling. It's not just Robocop,
it is our grandmother with a pacemaker. [Chris Hables
Gray, Steven Mentor, and Jennifer Figueroa-Sarriera,
"Cyborgology: Constructing the Knowledge of Cybernetic
Organisms."Cyborg Handbook, 322]
One of the high themes of this New Age is technology:
Man versus Machines. A well orchestrated plot by satan
and his forces to deceive many.
The plot is to prove that machine is greater than man
and therefore man will become dependent on it or integrated
with it; making it an idol or god. I too am somewhat
a science geek, but being a born again believer I cannot
allow myself to be deceived or conform to this world.
It would be easy to be deceived by it, because full
cyborges will be used to fight wars, rescue people and
do humanly impossible tasks; making it very enticing.
Epitomize by the movie Robo Cop.
As professor Warwick mentioned, by becoming a cyborge
you must have several computer chips implanted all over
your body, even though it might not look that way; like
these cyborges, http://www.theborgcollective.com/The
Borg/HTML/borg_images.htm. Therefore, we will inevitable
be controlled by it or it's operators (satanic regime);
somewhat like how satan plans to control everyone by
putting an insert
in their forehead or hand. Don't be fooled by the drama-Hollywood
masks, my history teacher once told me, "Life follows
art." Much like how in the beginning was the word
and then... So what you see in theatrical art is exactly
what satan and his cohorts are up to. By using Hollywood
we become enticed and less dramatize by it, as it is
slowly introduced. Most of what you see now was presented
on television 50 years ago.
Not only will becoming a cyborge take away one's freedom,
but it is openly flying in the face of God in assumption
that he has fallen short. It's a direct rebellion on
the creator. Satan would have used the same enticement
he used on Adam, "ye shall be as god." When
infact, they already had godship of the earth; but through
this trickery he had pulled them away from it and from
God. We, by becoming born again, would have side stepped
the more powerful baptism of the Holy Ghost and substitute
it for technological innovations. In other words, throwing
God's plan for us in his face and using our own.
This is not human evolution, but satan's cunning deception
to control humans; to rob us and keep us from the true
image of God. In doing this, he also attempts to discredit
the bible and Christianity.
We are bigger than cyborges. We are spirit beings and
it's truest potential can only be realized by becoming
born again and then caught up with Christ.