“Understanding Cyborg Technology & Enhancements designed to augment Human abilities.”
A comprehensive Review.
As a matter of fact, due to medical necessity, there are currently millions of people worldwide equipped with prosthetic devices to restore lost functions, and there is a growing DIY movement to self-enhance the body to create new senses or to enhance current senses to “beyond normal” levels of performance.
As we move deeper into the twenty-first century there is a major trend to enhance the body with “cyborg technology”.
To enlist from:
• Prosthetic limbs,
• Artificial heart pacers and defibrillators,
• Implants creating brain–computer interfaces,
• Cochlear implants,
• Retinal prosthesis,
• Magnets as implants,
• Exoskeletons, and a host of other enhancement technologies, the human body is becoming more mechanical and computational and thus less biological.
This trend will continue to accelerate as the body becomes transformed into an information processing technology, which...