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Cyborgs could be the most dreamt-of concept that sci-fi has yet to offer. And finally, that dream has become a reality, with the breakthroughs of Kevin Warwick and Steve Mann. On August 24, 1998 Kevin Warwick became the world’s first cyborg when he had a small transponder chip implanted in his forearm. The chip communicated with the central computer at the University of Reading and allowed him to turn on lights, open doors and operate the central heating and cooling systems. Steve Mann, though not truly a cyborg in that he has no true implants, has been an integral part in the wearable computing and computer-mediated reality movements.

As nanotechnology becomes cheaper, more advanced and technologically feasible, the wearable computing movement could reach the point where it merges with Warwick’s method of direct implantation. Using nanotechnology, it would be possible to have a tiny computer implanted somewhere in the body that would send information to a contact lens or external display placed right in front of the eye, similar to Mann’s current hardware. This would lead to Mann’s other project, computer-mediated reality, where data, pictures and other information could be superimposed onto surfaces around the wearer of the lens or eyepiece. More radical augmentations could be achieved through grafting components to the nervous system using nanotechnology to create and secure connections. Neural implants and some mental discipline training would grant users a greater degree of control, in-depth usage, and speed when using computers and other devices that are compatible with the implant. All these examples are ways that cybernetics and nanotechnology could push humanity to it’s next stage of evolution or tear it apart with arguments of ethics and morality.