“The old order changeth,

yielding place to new,

And God fulfils himself in many ways,

Lest one good custom should corrupt the world.”

- Tennyson’s “Morte D’Arthur”

Perhaps we shouldn’t be so hard on ourselves. Are the boarders we place a punishment or an excuse for comfort? Can a wall keep anything out?

The technoscience is becoming our biology. Are we programming ourselves? Are the technological tools we hold becoming an extension to our limbs? Homosap-iphonien.

The objects we use begin to define us. If nature is a machine that produces and destroys, then so are we. We are fusing ourselves into machines, our lives depend on them. We no longer exist only on soil, agriculture, hunting, farming. We are nomadic cyborgs. Our journey thrives on the upgrade.

We hardly have to search anymore. The goggle button had replaced the thumbing through an encyclopedia, another technology. The Britannica is going electric, but does that make it any less physical? Any less natural? We are gaining knowledge so fast that printing it is obsolete. We separate technology from the earth and forget where our materials come from. A Granny smith vs. an iPod.

Everything is a system. All objects, Ideas, theories, etc. In order to exist, support must be vital. The structure is never absent even if it is simple. Because of that, anything can be mapped. The Human Genome Project detailed and sequenced all 25,000 of our genes in DNA. Because our scientific efforts, both techno and bio, are becoming more enforced and complicated, Cartography has no limits.

So, My question begins to focus on experience. When we move forward, we begin to abandon. This isn’t to say we cannot or do not go back to old technology, but we loose the feeling of what it was like to have nothing else. Right now the most advanced technology is our limit but we use those tools to set a higher bar. The opportunities seem endless. My concern is that we are programming our bodies to be too comfortable through the use of our technologies. It is important for us to experience the physical world, which is full of good and bad. We have the ability to easily escape the bad and uncomfortable. Technology answers so many questions that should not be naturally possible, but are. So my question is, at what point does the ability to escape reality begin to harm and cripple us? Is there a possibility that we incorporate technology so much into the way that we function that we become a new species of cyborg?