What is a cyborg?
What is a cyborg?
Well, the easiest (and more tangible) response is that “cyborg” is short for cybernetic organism, or what cyborg theorists Gray, Mentor, and Figueroa-Sarriera (1995) call “the melding of the organic and the mechanic, or the engineering of a union between separate organic systems�? (p. 3). They admit, however, that “the range of human-machine couplings almost defies definition: even existing human cyborgs range from the quadriplegic patient totally dependent on a vast array of high-tech equipment to a small child with one immunization�?(p. 4). Yes, this is all a bit confusing…but many cyborgologists would say that we are all cyborgs to some extent, especially as our daily lives become increasingly connected to technologies of all kinds.

