It’s Time to Embrace Our Inevitable Future as Cyborgs

August 21, 2014

(Business Insider) – In 1929, prosthetics were still rudimentary devices, the idea that brainwaves could be recorded was met with ridicule, and what we would come to think of as “bionics” were many decades away. But John Desmond Bernal could see into the future. In The World, the Flesh, and the Devil, the controversial British scientist predicted that our species would not be limited by our biological bodies for long. Yes, we will soon all be cyborgs, he said more than 80 years ago.