These part human part robots are not confined to the discourses circulating among the intelligentsia rather their presence is so widespread that most of us can claim to have met one at some point or the4 other. Take for instance, the case of Margarethe Koller, an eighty six year old Austrian tailor; a living cyborg. Dentures, hearing aid, pacemaker, metallic pinkie toe, metallic strings to hold her ribs after the bypass and television as her only contact with the outside world during the bed-ridden, last days of her life are actually some cybernetic features. The only acquaintance with technology, she’s ever had, throughout her life, is through her radio and telly and now she has become a denizen of planet cyborg.

It’s just not technology at its best but also will power that creates medical wonders like Margarethe. Now let us take this deadly combo, a little further and what we have is androids with brain and heart made of flesh and blood and enclosing within them the wit and emotions that separates man from machines. They may prove to be a boon for technological advancement by undertaking those expeditions where the human body stands as a liability. In spite of being leviathan, they would still possess an enriched depository of emotions and the best part is we can program them! That would of course destroy emotional spontaneity and variety but then, we will live in peace. Think of that futuristic society of cyborgs where natural gifts are augmented with technology and no one is a loser, all specialists in their respective fields. We won’t have to face poverty, unemployment, greed, envy, depression, hatred. They all would have become obsolete by then. One would not suffer from any physical ailment or mental trauma. Cyborgs represent an enhanced pace of not just evolution but of spiritual and metaphysical growth. Sound too good to be true?