Reflection on Cyborg

I found all of the concepts from this course like cyborg, artificial life, subjectivity and posthuman etc. are very new to me. However, after taking this course, I agree that human’s lives are actually experiencing Donna Haraway’s concept of cyborg. I think the most obvious example in our daily life is we are now living with technology and we cannot avoid not to use them because technology are everywhere: sometimes we chat with friends by using immediate communication software (MSN, Skype etc.); sometimes we write dairy by Blogs because we want our friends or other netizens to know our daily life; sometimes we share photos or music videos on social networking sites to friends, let them know what are our favorites- these fact/examples reflected that our lives are controlled by technology since we start to choose using it.

Therefore, as human beings, we are no longer to deny ourselves as cyborg by saying we do not embedded any chips into our bodies- because we are now act, live with technology! Look what I am using to share my opinion: Internet, a blog, a technology! I have to (you may say I am forced to) depend on Internet to express my feelings for what I have learnt and I have to depend on Internet to get my work done. It is no question that this act is experiencing being cyborg. However, some people may accuse that the development of technology force us to be cyborg. In my view, yes, it seems impossible to live without technology, it seems human are now be forced to use technology, but I think it is also our choice to use or to create or to invent technology, it is our decision to become a cyborg because technology did change our quality of life! Thus, it also explained why scientists are doing experiments on creating artificial Intelligence! Nevertheless, even we cannot escape from the technology and the power of cyborg, I think the most important thing for us, for human is: we have to remember the nature of being human.

Law Siu Ting, Mildred 10382777