“I am a cyborg”

On May third, 1991 I became a cyborg.  A cyborg is a cybernetic organism, a man-machine, a person who is so dependent on machines that if you took the tools of technology away from him his whole life would be different.  I beleve we are all cyborgs. 

I wake up in the morning  turn on my light and enter my bathroom where I  turn on the faucet. The television says it will be 35 degrees today so I should put on something warm. I walk into my room I put on a pair of jeans, a sweater and I leave my house.  I reach in my pocket take out my metro card and swipe it in the turn style. I walk up the staris and rush to make it to the train,  sitting in my seat not moving at all, my body is moving at thirty miles per hour. My stop has arrived, the doors open while the voice from the speakers says “thank you for ridding new your city transit.”  I arrive at LaGuardia Community College and walk right threw the automatic door. Waiting for the elevator I finally enter. Standing straight in place I am moving vertically to the seventh floor. I walk to room c723 to Dr. Smiths class, we are ironically discussing cyborgs.

Within that hour span I use countless forms of technology just to start my day. Whether it be the magnetic currents that power a Metrocard swipe, or the electric volts that move a train, our every day lives have become so dependent on technology that not only do we take these technologies for granted, we don't even realize we are using them at all. 

We are all born as cyborgs and will all die as cyborgs because we don’t know anything different. From birth we have been trained to accept man made technology as an essential part of everyday life, without considering the ramifications. Everything from the warming of water in our homes to the computer I am typing this essay on, man has become so dependent on technology that they have become one.