I am a cyborg; today we live in a world of cyborgs. This makes such statements much more common. In the past, cyborgs were considered natural phenomena and were one in a billion. Recently, our society no longer cares whether you are a cyborg or not, but rather what type of cyborg you are. Cyborg technologies have invaded almost every aspect of our lives, including technologies such as vaccination, the insulin pump, artificial organs, etc. For decades, cyborgs have been exclusively associated with science fiction and fantasy; only in the futuristic genre can the organic and the inorganic combine to form a cognitive being. In novels and other forms of media, scientists are like gods who present unimaginable improvements to humans, making them superior to the average human. Cyborgs are considered tangled creations of human flesh and metal, possessing incredible strength, speed, or mental capacity. These cyborgs are praised and glorified as so-called super-humans who stand out as a different species having evolved in the hands of man. Although cyborgs seem like a figment of the imagination, there are cyborgs who walk and live among us. They are not the metal-plated humans advertised and they do not speak with robotic voices, but are like regular humans. These cyborgs are medical cyborgs. Some of them have mechanical devices implanted in their ears to help with hearing and overcome deafness, wear contact lenses, have an insulin pump to help control diabetes, or have an artificial heart to maintain circulation blood in their body. Producing a medical cyborg is a collaboration between medicine and technology to improve or restore human biological processes. For centuries, man ...... middle of paper ......tor, or a second type of man built unnaturally and possessed superhuman powers. Although these changes incorporate machine into man, the goal is to restore or replicate normal biological processes in reality, not to create the man envisioned in works of science fiction. Works Cited Clynes, ME, Kline, NS “Cyborgs and Space”. The Cyborg Handbook. New York, New York: Routledge, 1995. Gaffney, F. and Fenton, Barry J. “Barney B Clark, DDS: A View From theMedical Service.” The Cyborg Handbook. New York, New York: Routledge, 1995. Gray, Chris. H. “Cyborgology: Building knowledge of cybernetic organisms” The Cyborg manual. New York, New York: Routledge, 1995. Klugman, Craig M. “From Cyborg Fiction to Medical Reality.” Literature and medicine. 20, no. 1 (Spring 2001). Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.