Final Essay

Avant-garde artist, musician, and cyborg Neil Harbission once said “Technology is made by humans. If we modify our body with human creations, we become more human” (The Sun 2012). The evolution of human technology has defined contemporary society as we know it today. However, the argument that technology has shaped our biological needs questions whether cyborgism is the next step in human evolution. To assuage our constant appetite for improved quality of life, some form of intrinsic self-regulating technology could be the solution. Few people recognize that cybernetic organisms presently exist and science fiction has been eclipsed with reality (Mann and Niedzviecki 2001, 2). As this becomes a phenomenon, we as a society must contemplate the

This is how we have become the most predominant species on the planet. History professor and renowned author, Yuval Noah Harari, believes that the “next revolution” as he calls it will radically change a species of sapiens that has now remained virtually the same for 10,000 years. While an increasing amount of our present reality exists within or through computers, Harari finds it worrying that the future of humankind is now in the hands of a small group of entrepreneurs (Cadwalladr 2015). Presently, only a small international caste of business people, entrepreneurs and engineers have set the stage for cybernetic technology. Governments have become the “managers” of our capitalistic

People will always be unequal on some level, even in a posthuman society where sapiens have become beyond human. The concern that the application of cybernetic technology as an enhancement and not a necessity to the human body will create further inequality and conflict in society is not an entirely new concept. Augmenting human capability using technology above others within the community is what leads to inequality and competitive advantage. History repeats itself and during each technological revolution, the more privileged gained access to these advancements