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Technology has helped to create a society that is ever more increasingly dependent
on technology. Well, before I start to scare everyone with talk of cyborgs and other half human and half machine people, let me explain a little about technology. Technology basically the ability to use tools and/or machines to increase productivity or quality. Society uses technology to control the world. Technology is growing and expanding at a rate that is extremely fast. Just think how far that telephones have come, from a big old turn style to Blue-Tooth technology. Every car that you pass these days has the driver talking on a cell phone. Fields like Medicine and communications have changed our cultures and our lifestyles. This is what Donna J. Haraway writes about in A Cyborg Manifesto. She writes that "A cyborg is a cybernetic organism, a hybrid of machine and organism " the author is not talking about the science fiction character but, more a the human race so dependent
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