THE NEXT STEP OF EVOLUTION - CYBORGS

Over thousands of years, mankind has evolved a lot. From using stone weapons and eating raw flesh to making giant megastructures and advanced medical science, all we have done was for one sole purpose, survival of the human race. And in order to survive further, we need to keep evolving. So the question is what is the next step of human evolution? Is it achieving immortality, living in space, altering the genetics or something else? Well today we are going to answer one of these possible evolutionary steps, the cyborgs.

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WHAT IS A CYBORG?

A cyborg, a portmanteau of cybernetic organism, is a being with both organic and biomechatronic body parts.

The term cyborg is not the same thing as bionic, biorobot or android it applies to an organism that has restored function or enhanced abilities due to the integration of some artificial component or technology that relies on some sort of feedback While cyborgs are commonly thought of as mammals, including humans, they might also conceivably be any kind of organism.

THE FIRST CYBORG

Neil Harbissoni s the world's first legally recognized cyborg. He has an antenna implanted into his skull that gives him access to something he was born without: the ability to perceive color. He's is the first cyborg but most certainly not the last.

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FUTURE OF HUMANITY WITH CYBORGS?

The Implantations can make a huge impact in our biology, we can have really powerful limbs, a super smart half artificial brain and much more, maybe more than we can imagine right now.

The fusion of human with the latest technology doesn’t stop there. Already there are people trying to embed new senses—and make no mistake of it, GPS is already an addition to the human sensorium, albeit still in an external device—directly into our minds and bodies.

Might we one day be able to fill the blood with nano-bots—tiny machines—that repair our cells, relegating the organ and hip replacements of today, marvelous as they are, to a museum of antiquated technology? Or will we achieve that not through a perfection of the machinist’s art but through the next steps in the path trod by Luther Burbank? Amazing work is happening today in synthetic biology and genetic engineering.

Technology is growing day by day and new inventions are made simultaneously. We can be sure that soon enough technology will completely take over on is and the organic and mechanic will become one and the world of cyborgs will be born.