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September Is Cyborg Month

Posted by timothy on from the please-participate-in-the-form-of-a-bot dept.

Snowmit writes "In May 1960, Manfred E. Clynes and Nathan S. Kline presented a paper called 'Drugs, Space, and Cybernetics.' The proceedings of the symposium were published in 1961, but, before that, an excerpt of Clynes & Kline's paper appeared in the September issue of Astronautics magazine (issue 13), entitled Cyborgs and Space [PDF]. Aside from a mention in the New York Times, that's is the first time the word appears in print. This month is the 50th anniversary of that article. To commemorate, a group of writers and artists have gotten together to create 50 Post About Cyborgs. Over the course of the month, there will be essays, fiction, links to great older material, comics, and even a song. We're going to talk about Daleks, IEDs, Renaissance memory palaces, chess computers, prosthetic imagination, Videodrome, mutants, sports, and maybe the Bible. To kick things off, Kevin Kelly wrote this essay arguing that we've been cyborgs all along."

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  1. Sept 18 by sohp · · Score: 3, Funny

    September is Cyborg month, and the 18th is Talk Like a Pirate Day. What does that mean?

    http://zenisstupid.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/cyborg-pirate-ninja-jesus.jpg

    1. Re:Sept 18 by greymond · · Score: 2, Funny

      Ninjas won't have a chance against Cyborg Pirates!

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    2. Re:Sept 18 by The+Clockwork+Troll · · Score: 3, Funny

      If you miss Cyborg September this go-around, don't worry, it'll be back.

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  2. Cybauorg! by NoobixCube · · Score: 2, Funny

    If a cyborg is a cybernetic organism, that makes the likes of Terminators cyborgs. Daleks and Cybermen, and the Borg, are cybernetically augmented organisms, which I quoined "cybauorgs".

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    1. Re:Cybauorg! by Canazza · · Score: 2, Funny

      *points*
      Geeeeeek

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  3. This is the only cyborg I care about by Master+of+Transhuman · · Score: 3, Funny

    When they start looking like this, email me.

    http://blog.hdscreencaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/summer_glau_0002.jpg/

    http://usemycomputer.com/indeximages/2009/May/SummerGlauTerminatorSecondSeasonMay2009114.jpg/

    http://www.wallpaperweb.org/wallpaper/babes/1920x1200/summer_glau_20090725_0161.jpg/

    http://www.wallpaperweb.org/wallpaper/babes/1280x800/summer_glau_20091211_2158_1280x800.jpg/

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  4. Zombie Jesus by Henriok · · Score: 2, Funny

    as Jesus was a zombie, wouldn't that be a cyborg-pirate-ninja-zombie-jesus?

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  5. Re:*Yawn* by imakemusic · · Score: 2, Funny

    And why, exactly, am I supposed to care that a bunch of random bloggers I've never heard of are using a barely readable website to publish their opinions on cyborgs?

    I don't know, why did you come to Slashdot?

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