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Whatever I can tell you about the extraordinariness of the cyborg might be a bit mooted by the strangeness of our present moment.
48. Quinn Norton, who once gave herself a sixth sense, offers a wide-gazing analysis of the place of cyborgs in a very, very weird half-century.
It seems like the discussion of cyborgs in the time since 1960, echoing the discussion of robotics, bounced between news of DARPA and DARPA-like Sci-fi projects none of us will ever really see and Critiques on how We’d All Been Cyborgs, Really, Since We First Picked Up Sticks. I want a middle ground. I want to say there are inflection points where the scale of things changes the nature of what they do.
Posted on September 30, 2010
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.
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