Blog 1

Fernando Torres
Dr. Smith
English 101/103

The men and women in the early 1900’s would be overwhelmed by so much technology. We’ve advanced so much, and we still continue to, over the years in the media. With everything around us changing, ex. music, art, transportation, everything is modernized now a lot because of technology. Technology can be seen, used today, in medicine, sports, the military and art. From the time I was born until now we’ve seen some drastic changes in electronics. Phones are more popular than ever, now carrying internet and some even give you the chance to watch live TV on it. Phones originally were meant to call and just be able to contact someone if they lived far away or if was urgent. Now it seems like more and more people are texting and fewer calls are being made.
You can access and do just about anything on the internet. Certain popular websites such as Ebay and Amazon let you shop and sell anything and everything on it. Customers bid on items and try to top the next one’s price. Google and other search engines have become extremely important in finding anything you’re looking for. Downloading music has been at its highest because of amazing products being made by companies such as Apple and Sony. Apple has launched the iphone and ipod which both sold millions in the few months it debuted. Technology is getting faster and better and is controlling almost everything in our daily lives that we don’t even notice. These would be called social cyborgs. A cyborg is a cybernetic organism that has both natural and artificial systems. We’ve seen examples of this in famous movies such as the matrix, the terminator and blade runner. This gives us the idea of having a man be robotic or have machinery components or that of a machine having human and natural qualities.
There is no doubt in my mind that everything around us is becoming more technological, but I wouldn’t go as far to say that we are becoming cyborgs. I agree, naturally we have adjusted ourselves to a more high tech and socially cyborg environment, although some of us participate in these activities we are aware of what we’re doing. Some choose to not have cell phones and use the internet or anything modern in that sense. Also, in medicine or sports, athletes who lose a body part have the option of using steroids to enhance and recreate their body. They have willingly chosen to take this and at times it’s necessary to take these forms of drugs to help you recover from an accident or sickness. Athletes who lose an arm or leg have the option of getting a prosthetic leg or arm replacement. It may be that one day the world will completely be controlled by computers or a higher technological device and humans will be ruled by it and future humans will be born as cyborgs, but as of now we’re free.