Am I a cyborg ?
What is a cyborg? Cyborg is a hybrid of mechanism and organism, like at this moment, I am typing in this weblog, this “me” is a cyborg. For me, I do think I am a cyborg, and I have to admit that I cant live without technology, once I am using those device, I am cyborg, but when I am not using them, I am a human. But with more and more technology take part in your life, you cannot live without it coz it was so convenient, but it also blur the boundary of human and technology at the same time. So , its important for use to separate our human identity and cyborg identity. I do think I am a cyborg, but I think my human identity is far more important and significant than my cyborg identity. Its important to identity what is human and what is machine, coz if we do not do so, we will lose our identity.
Use of blog
To be frankly,, I do not think this blog can help me in learning this unit, it only added my work load. Its good to have a platform to communicate with my classmate on something academic, but only when it was voluntary, especially with that much workload in this semester. If the purpose of this weblog is to encourage to think more and express our self more, then , I think it will be better if we do it in class.
My view in this unit
Before I study this unit , I have no idea what is a cyborg. After the first lesson, I know what is a cyborg and the first word come to my mind is “crazy”, the concept of cyborg were so innovative and freak me out… !! but with this unit , I can have more and more understanding on cyborg, this force me to rethink the world and the way we use the machine. Actually , I don’t think this unit is practical, but I have to admit that it inspire me to think more about what is human and what is machine. The reason I don’t think this course is useful because, no matter what is your stance on the relationship between human and technology, you are still under the exited social norms, like you may be seen as a freak if you say yourself is not a human, but a machines or a hybrid of human and technology. Maybe someday, the technology is so advance that human is a part of technology or technology is a part of human, but not today. Of course we have to be longsighted, but even if our mind do so, our body still live in 21 century, and have to follow the social norms. So in conclude, I think this unit is particle in mind but useless in psychical body.
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