I think even since our ancestors started making tools the merging of man and machine was eventually going to occur. “…Kurzweil believes that we’re approaching a moment when computers will become intelligent, and not just intelligent but more intelligent that humans.” Lev Grossman writes. We are spices that go above and beyond our limitations so what’s stopping us from eventually trying to overcome death and aging? Is that really such a bad thing? Just think when we are in our ninety’s we will one day be able to see our grandchild’s children. Nonetheless the rehabilitation of man lies within the merging of man and technology. For example the Cochlear implant this device is implanted in the ear and turns sounds into electrical impulses and transmits them to the brain. And even the pacemaker not to be confused with the heart's natural pacemaker uses electrical impulses contacting the heart muscles to regulate the beating of the heart. This doesn’t make any less human this in fact should makes us more human allowing us to hear when we don’t have to ability to hear and allowing us to live when you don’t have the opportunity to live.
We have come so far as to try to unlock he mysteries of the brain. Even most scientists would admit that the brain is unbelievably complicated. One of the biggest brakes through comes with the help of technology; we now have the ability intercept the nature of the electrical impulses between neurons that carry information in the brain. Technology has helped us to the point where we can interpret what the brain is trying to do.
Twenty or thirty years ago all of this would have been impossible. And now it’s simply another triumph we are trying to outdo.
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