“We’re cyborgs. I really mean it.”
My elevator pitch goes something like this: “I know you think cyborgs are always imminent. But not here yet. However, I am a cyborg. And cyborgs are first and foremost disabled people. We’re the ones who have a fundamental interface with tech. We’re the ones who depend on tech to actually live. And we’re not new. We’ve been here since Hephaestus. If you want a concrete example, you call this my. It is real to me. I experience it perhaps more than you experience your own leg.
And someone says ‘what time is it?’ and I say ‘it is three o'clock’ and someone says ‘what about the other time?’ and I say ‘it is also three o'clock.’ There’s something here that’s not quite surfacing for me. Something about seeing double and time.
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