Reliance on Technolgy

•  …  our reliance on technology has enabled some technologies to become an extension or part of one’s self 
  • Pacemakers “use electrical impulses, delivered by electrodes contracting the heart muscles, to regulate the beating of the heart” (Wikipedia, 2008).
  • We may not necessarily consider people with pacemakers as cyborgs but according to the cyborg definition, they are a “hybrid of machine and organism

• Stelarc (performance artist who takes our reliance on technology to a more extreme level by exploring how the body relates to technology)

• “Bodies are both Zombies and Cyborgs… we have always been coupled with technology… We fear the involuntary and we are becoming increasingly automated and extended.