Entry from OED Online
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SECOND EDITION 1989 |
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[Blend of CYB(ERNETIC
a. and ORG(ANISM.]
A person whose physical tolerances or
capabilities are extended beyond normal human limitations by a machine or other
external agency that modifies the body's functioning; an integrated man-machine
system. 1960
N.Y. Times 22 May
31/1 A cyborg is essentially a man-machine system in which the
control mechanisms of the human portion are modified externally by drugs or
regulatory devices so that the being can live in an environment different from
the normal one. 1960
CLYNES
& KLINE
in Astronautics Sept. 27/1 For
the exogenously extended organizational complex functioning as an integrated
homeostatic system unconsciously, we propose the term ‘Cyborg’. The Cyborg
deliberately incorporates exogenous components extending the self-regulatory
control function of the organism in order to adapt it to new environments. 1966
C. M. CADE Other
Worlds than Ours x. 218 The ‘Cyborg’—which is the name..for animal-machine combinations—seems to be the man of the future. 1970
A.
TOFFLER Future Shock ix. 185 Advanced
fusions of man and machine—called
‘Cyborgs’—are closer than most people suspect. 1976
Physics Bull. June 266/1 There
is a fundamental limit to the mass for a given rate of information processing...
Perhaps even the most advanced cyborgs stop far short of this theoretical limit. 1984
M.
AMIS Money 308, I am a robot, I am an
android, I am a cyborg, I am a
skinjob.
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