Becoming Cyborg

7 August 2008

The Electronic Eye

Posted by Andrew Garcia under: Body Modification; Cybernetics; Evolution; Technology .

I’d just like to share this link that was sent to me earlier today by a dear friend.

http://www.nature.com/news/2008/080806/full/news.2008.1004.html?s=news_rss

The article itself relates to bionic eye technology and emergent small-scale technology that might represent a step forward for the blind. Currently, technology for replacing retinas and eyes with bionic interfaces is bulky and expensive and quite dysfunctional.

From the article:

To improve the camera’s resolution, the researchers have also experimented with another of nature’s designs. The constant motion of the human eye means that we get many views of an object, which we automatically combine to give us a better picture of what we’re looking at, explains Rogers. So his team has done the same, taking several images with their camera at slightly different angles and then combining them with computer software to give a much sharper image.

I’d just like to note that I find it ironic that new bionic technology is coming closer to approximating the efficiency of human organs by replicating their very form and function. This makes me almost envision a world full of bionic human cyborgs who look and act identically to natural humans because at that point all machine technology would appear and function as organic in nature. Are we copying ourselves?

It was once said thatany technology taken far enough into the past would appear as magical to that past society. If we were to look ahead a hundred years would we find an apparently natural world full of magic secretly ridden with nanoscale, bionic machinary?

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