A friend in college, herself a doctorate student, once told me about her work on the role of cyborgs in literature. She said she was studying these part humans, part machines because, as a society, our technology was quickly becoming an extension of our physical selves.
At the time, the early 2010s, this concept sounded theoretical and interesting, but highly academic and like faraway science fiction. But now, as a thirty-something in 2025, I can see how tangible her hypothesis was.
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