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cyborg

(CYBernetic ORGanism) A being that is part human and part machine. The term was coined in 1960 by Manfred Clynes and Nathan Kline in an article they wrote about how humans can survive in space. For centuries, various cultures have fantasized about half human-half artificial beings; however, in the 20th century this concept materialized in the form of artificial limbs, pacemakers and other bionic devices. See lifecasting, Borg, cybernetics and bionic.

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Indeed this central interweaving of fiction and reality is highlighted by Mino's statement to the Italian press that "la macchina calcolatrice umana," the kind of cyborg he becomes, "e una realta di oggi" (32).

Creating the ideal posthuman body? Cyborg sex and gender in the work of Buzzati, Vacca, and Ammaniti

Harbisson believes that changing the misconceptions around himself and other cyborgs are a question of looking beyond our own existence.

The sound of colour: cyborg Neil Harbisson

Cyborg is simply a cut above the rest of the women in the world and it's going to take an incredible fighter to beat her.

8 things we learned from UFC 222 as Cris Cyborg defends title and Brian Ortega shocks the world; The UFC returned to Las Vegas, Nevada for UFC 222 as Cyborg took on newcomer Yana Kunitskaya in the main event

I like learning a lot of the technical aspects, like how they create Cyborg for the screen,' Fisher recalls.

Ray Fisher is Cyborg

In the rat cyborg navigation training, MFB stimulation is used as the reward as well as a cue (FORWARD) to move ahead [21-23].

Automatic training of rat cyborgs for navigation

Thomas's cyborg creature fits with Haraway's description of cyborg as the organism of cybernetic, as the machine/organism hybrid, and as fictious/factious creature.

Correspondence between cyborg body and cyber self

A dimension highlighted in this concept of human as cyborg but not mentioned in the previous model is that humans and things are separable and can reconnect as cyborg without the loss of individual distinctness.

Longing for transcendence: cyborgs and trans- and posthumans

To survive, he or she gives up being 'only human' for the integrity of a cyborg whose 'acting ability' depends on the simultaneous deployment of the technological, the natural, and the human (after Latour, 2002).

Diving with Donna Haraway and the promise of a blue planet

Bientot, un condense de nanotechnologies de la taille d'un grain de sable integre dans le cerveau pourrait suffire a faire d'un humain un cyborg aux capacites mentales des milliards de fois superieures, assure M.

Transhumanisme: ameliorer l'homme ou le remplacer par des cyborgs

Investing in innovative companies like Cyborg Trading Systems will result in high-quality jobs in the region and put southern Ontario on the map as a leader in the world's information and communications technology industry.

Canada : Government of Canada Supports the Expansion of a London-Area Technology Company

A Fellow of the IET, Professor Warwick has already made significant advances in the field of cyborg development.

Professor predicts robots with brains

No obstante, llama la atencion que las caracteristicas que pensaban para el cyborg tambien parecian destinadas a la creacion de seres que pudieran sobrevivir a una guerra nuclear y al posterior invierno atomico.