• Question: Will we be cyborgs in 50-60 years time?

    Asked by to Aled, Kev, Willem on 21 Mar 2014. This question was also asked by .
    • Photo: Aled Roberts

      Aled Roberts answered on 21 Mar 2014:

      Hey Edwing!

      Haha! Good question! In short… no, unfortunately! However we will have mini computers inside of us! At the moment we are using technology to advance medicine and it is possible that in the future we will have small computers inside of us that will aid certain systems when we lose the ability to control them. I think a fascinating area are prosthetics (i.e. when someone loses a leg/arm). I’m almost certain that we will have cyborg body parts in this instance! However a full cyborg will never happen as we want to be at least part human!

      Humans > Machines! haha!

      Hope that answers your question! Don’t forget to vote 🙂

    • Photo: Willem Heijltjes

      Willem Heijltjes answered on 21 Mar 2014:

      Hi Edwing!

      I think that, in some respects, we already are cyborgs! How many of us can still live without our smartphone? 😉

      The main thing that will need to happen, to become “real” cyborgs, is to control a computer with your brain… This is hard! But is not impossible, and in 50-60 years, I’m pretty sure that will happen!

      It doesn’t mean that people will have computers “inside” their body. But you don’t have to do that to be a “cyborg”! You can wear it, like Google Glass, as long as it *feels* like it is part of you! 🙂

Comments