What is Cyborg?

According to Wikipedia, a cyborg is a cybernetic organism. This organism has both artificial and natural systems which mean that a cyborg is not total machine like a robot, but it also has some biological system that might be as same as humans or other living nature. From what I have seen from TV or other media, most of cyborgs are human like, and inside the body, it could have some complex mechanism that enhance their biological capabilities such as faster running or incredibly strong.

In my opinion, I feel that between cyborgs and androids are a bit different. I always thought that an android is made by advance technology where physical body looks like human being, but inside is a robot. An android might have superior capability than a normal robot such as capable of expressing emotion or thinking. On the other hand, a cyborg is less advance technology than the android. For example, a cyborg is incapable of expressing feeling and emotion. It may look like human on the outside, but it may also have some piece of non-human organs such as metal object on its physical appearance which can be indicated whether it is robot or not. However, androids are something that is difficult to determined whether it is robot or not. For example, in the movie “Blade Runner” Rick Deckard has to ask a series of questions to the android to determine if it is a human.

Actually I don’t feel threatened by them if Cyborgs would exist in the future, but I might not be so exciting about it either. Just thinking about some new computer technology being used to replace human would give a lot of trouble to us. For example, labor work could be replaced by cyborgs which could cause human to lose their jobs. If there are in fact cyborgs living in this world and being used in a war, it would be like the movie “The Terminator” where they use robots to kill humans. I still don’t see why we need cyborgs to replace human beings. It’s not like I want to see humans going to a war, but if we create something like cyborgs or androids to a war, it’s the same as creating a new kind of weapon, and we all know what damage is already done by guns.

Anyway, I think I believe that if cyborgs exist in this world, they could also be useful to humans for many reasons. We can use them to do some certain tasks such as being a house keeper, doing some extremely dangerous jobs or so many other things. If cyborgs will be used in the right way, that would be a good thing, but if not, it could destroy us too.

We never know whether we will have cyborgs or androids in the future. From many movies that I have seen, they have shown some bad consequences from having cyborgs or androids in this world like the movie “Terminator”, “I, Robot”, “Blade Runner”, or “Universal Soldier”, so I feel like it might not be a good idea for cyborgs to exist. However, I think that we won’t have cyborgs in our world in twenty or thirty years from now because we still have so many existing problems that need to be solved such as global warming or bad economic. We are not ready cyborgs for that yet. Maybe 40-50 years from now, it could happen.