"Cyborg" is a science-fictional shorting of "cybernetic organism". The idea is that, in the near future, we may have more and more artificial body parts - arms, legs, hearts, eyes - and digital computing and communication supplements. The logical conclusion is that one might become a brain in a wholly artificial body. And the step after that is to replace your meat brain by a computer brain.

Links & References

Technology as Extension of Human Functional Architecture

An essay about technological extensions to human - attachments, implants, wrappers, manipulators... By Alexander Chislenko.

Cyborg Detector

Cyborg Activity. Terminology, body modification, cyborg culture, myths, identity...

Communication Studies: Digital Media: Cyborgs

Communication studies material from University of Iowa.

Legacy Systems and Functional Cyborgization of Humans

By Alexander Chislenko.

Cyborg Anthropology Archive

An archive by Electronic Frontier Foundation.

Cyborgs 'R' Us

A Guide to the History of the Cyborg. By Martin Irvine.

Presenting the Cyborg's Futurist Past

An analysis of Dziga Vertov's Kino-Eye.
By Joseph Christopher Schaub.

The Human Body and the Machine

Some artwork on a MIT course.

Cyborg Subjects and Networked Communities

Cyborg Subjects and Networked Communities links for University of Rochester Digital Culture seminars.

Virtual Concrete

A project exploring Corpo-Reality. Plan yourself.

Home Page of a Cyborg

This obviously schizophrenic man really thinks he's a cyborg.