Machines

"We have always...been prosthetic bodies"(D.Shaw, Pg 81, 2008) 

This quote was not said by Shaw but merely quoted in his book Technoculture. It was said by a man who goes by the name of Stelarc, he was a futurism performance artist who's focus was on how he thought the human body was "obsolete". He see's the human body as needing technology to go forward in life and to discover more about itself and in many cases he is right. He thinks that us as humans are no less machines than the machines we make and that we can not live separate lives from the machine, rather we live together as one. Today more than ever has our lives been so close to that of the machine, we consume products made by machines everyday and it can only become a closer bond the more we invest in our technologies which is not necessarily a bad thing. 

"Information technologies, applied to understanding, visualizing and manipulating the human body have problematized the distinction between 'us', other species and machines". (D.Shaw, Pg 101, 2008) 

What Shaw is saying here is that the more we keep upgrading and making our machine methods easier to communicate with and understand, the smaller the boundaries get between us as humans and them as machines. We tend to forget how easy it is today to get involved with our machines compared to many years ago, we now have robotic toy animals that our kids begin to love rather than a real dog or cat and the likes of games consoles becoming virtual reality makes us feel immersed in new worlds and have new abilities that our own human bodies could not possibly do, thus we could definitely see these technologies as enhancements to our everyday lives.

One unit in our planet that is constantly called a machine is our military system. Know for following rules and obeying commands they would be the easiest people to point at if you thought anyone was like machines. "A well disciplined army, in fact, can be compared to a well oiled machine"(D.Shaw, Pg 82, 2008). With this quote I can strongly agree that the military operate like a machine, military follow and obey orders like a machine, if the military loss a soldier they get another one just like a component getting broke in a machine, it will get fixed.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Shaw, D. (2008) Technoculture: The Key Concepts; Oxford Berg Press (P.81-102)