Sunday, October 7, 2007

Cyborgs:hyper-human?

Many sci-fi films have presented the ‘cyborgs’ in such extreme ways where always catastrophes involved. One of the dominant discourses of science dystopia is human getting harmed by the cyborgs; the man-made cyborgs are the ones who attack the humans after all. However, not all cyborgs are portrayed in bad ways. Based on the noble Cyborg by Martin Caidin, an American TV series The Six Million Dollar Man depicted a cyborg as a heroic figure and became a major pop cultural icon of the 70s. I remember back in the days I wanted to be a cyborg just like Steve Austin and tried to mimic his slow-motion action sequences (although there was no “electronic” sound effect available). Who knows? Maybe, one day, humans could ‘evolve’ as technologically integrated organisms that have supernatural power just like the Six Million Dollar Man.

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