Hi Haley!
Your topic sounds super interesting! I'm excited to learn more about cybernetics! I remember reading this book called Cinder (I remember talking about it with you during the last meeting!!), and it was very similar to your topic. As a small summary for those who’ve never read the book and are reading my comment, the main character in the story is named Linh Cinder, and she’s a teenage girl who is part cyborg and part human. In short, the story is about her desperation, suffering, discrimination, and hope for change and acceptance for being simply put as someone who is “different” than the others. During her personal navigation to who she is as an individual, the earth that she lives on is at war with the people from the moon. It’s an amazing story! Thus, I like how you made connections with things you’ve seen as well as read to decide to go delve deeper into cybernetics! I also enjoyed how you’ve talked about why you find your topic interesting. By doing this, you’ve explained all the information that you’ve known and took that in discovering what you don’t know. Thus, you gave me a better background perspective when you were explaining such. Nonetheless, your thought processes were also extremely organized due to your four questions, and it was easy to follow along. What I find the most fascinating is how you explained that we don’t realize cyborgs are all around us. I enjoyed that you you’ve given specific examples. I didn’t know that there were so many various ways people are using technology on our own body to, in a way, improve it. I was wondering if you could take on the aspect on whether technology is moving at a rapid pace. I suggest you look into the long- and short-term effects of having such technology is going to affect the human race. For example, if we were taking about technology in general, there are already people taking about how robots are taking over our jobs and how there is a decrease in job availability. You may also want to look into some myths and facts about robotics. There's a lot of misconceptions out there about cyborgs. Thus, I believe that it would be beneficial to look into that. You can also study the differences on how Cinder is portraying these cyborgs to be and just how the reality of such technology is actually being used today. Moreover, the consequences of accepting our bodies to become cyborg would also be interesting to look into. Would we, at one point, become more robot than human? As mentioned by http://www.bbc.com/future/stor...-myths-about-cyborgs , “there’s a big gulf between the fantasy vision of cyborgs, and the current reality of being dependent on an implant or a prosthetic in day-to-day life”.
Here are some websites you can use for your next round:
https://medicalfuturist.com/th...us-real-life-cyborgs
http://www.bbc.com/future/stor...-myths-about-cyborgs
https://cosmosmagazine.com/soc...ide-to-cyborg-rights
Good luck!
-Alison
