50 Posts About Cyborgs

September 2010 was the 50th Anniversary of the coining of the term 'cyborg'. Over the course of the month, this site was updated 50 times with links to material — most of it new — celebrating 50 years of one of the 20th Century's more enduring concepts.

Now it's gone dark.

Curated by Tim Maly of Quiet Babylon

42. Arikia Millikan, community manager of Haiti Rewired and research assistant to Nate Silver already spends most of her life online. She’s ready for the next step.

Hal: Now you Google things on your computer — of course. And you Google things on your phone. That’s the next stage. And I believe — people may laugh — but I think there will be an implant. So you’ll have it there, and I won’t say it’s necessarily Google, I’ll say the Web, it will access the Web of information.

Arikia: Sign me up when that happens.

Hal: You want your implant?

Arikia: I want it now

I Am Cyborg and I Want My Google Implant Already - Arikia Millikan - Technology - The Atlantic

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  Sign me up. I cannot wait to be fully connected. I’m looking forward
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