Op-Ed: Upgrading Humans

June 7, 2007

Part human, part machine the cyborg is not just a piece of science fiction any longer. Professor of cybernetics at the University of Reading, UK, Kevin Warwick shocked the international scientific community when he became the world’s first cyborg by having a miniature computer surgically implanted into the main nerve canal of his left arm. He has documented this transformation in his latest book I, Cyborg. (The Rising Nepal)