Here's a story my favorite
Cyborg Anthropologist @
caseorganic Amber Case, would love. Although Katherine argues we are Symbionts vs Amber's Cyborgs, either way we've developed what some would say is an (arguably) unhealthy relationship with technology.
[W]e have become symbionts, says Katherine Hayles, author of “How We Became Posthuman.” Just as a lichen is the marriage of a fungus and an algae, we now live in full partnership with digital technology, which we rely on for the infrastructure of our lives. “If every computer were to crash tomorrow, it would be catastrophic,” she says. “Millions or billions of people would die. That’s the condition of being a symbiont.”
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We can't see the forest for the T-Mobiles - washingtonpost.com
Maybe we're Symbiotic Cyborgs? Cyborg Symbionts? Symborgs? Either way we have become our own scifi story. Now I just need a cool soundtrack for my iPod to go with that.
