danny's reflection on cyborg

Cyborg Watch: Electronic Circuits Built From Human Blood
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/03/31/cyborg-electronic-circuits-human-blood/?test=faces

This is a news taeeling about the successful experiment in important process of manufacturing a cyborg by indian researchers. They succeed in constructing the biological memristor filling with human blood held at 98.6 Fahrenheit (37 Celsius) into which two electrodes are inserted. Then they produce proper measuring instrustmentation. after that, there is successful demonstration of memristor with blood. Their aim is to produce circuitry linking human tissues and nerve cells with electronic devices. This may come true in the future soon.

people has been creating and imagining the emergence and image of cyborgs. This experiment reveals that this may become real very soon. This is an important breakthrough of technology. People may feel exciting toeards cyborgs. There may be some critical questions and problems that emerge at the same time. First, is it human or machine? Certainly a cyborg is a combination of organism and machine. However sometimes there must be classification between either machine or organism. A cyborg may have blood and electronic devices. Therefore, creating the boundary and definition is a harsh task. If it is regarded as “human liked” or “having human characteristics”, then, are there should be problems of ethnic, race, sex, rights and duty? Who are responsible for judgement?

Then, what is the aim to producing cyborgs and what is the function of cyborgs?
Someone may say that cyborg can do what human can do and also cannot do. It can be alternative of human when doing something that human is no able to do. For example, go into the scene of accident or hazards for rescue. It may also be the subject of experiment for medical use.
On the other hand, it may also replace human for abundant normal work. This affect the labour market and thus bring deep impact to society in a large extent.

In conclusion, people have been waiting for the emergence of cyborgs and this seems close to success. However, people must thing more and rationally about the related problems brought by cyborgs, and also cyborgs’ problems produced by human.