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Cover Quote: November 2016
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A cyborg is a self-regulating organism that combines the natural and artificial together in one system. Cyborgs do not have to be part human, for any organism/system that mixes the evolved and the made, the living and the inanimate, is technically a cyborg. This would include biocomputers based on organic processes, along with roaches with implants and bioengineered microbes. ... If you have been technologically modified in any significant way, from an implanted pacemaker to a vaccination that reprogrammed your immune system, then you are definitely a cyborg. Even if you are one of those rare people who is in no way a cyborg in the technical sense, cyborg issues still impact you. We live in a cyborg society, no matter how unmodified we are as individuals. So as we humans continue to technologically transform ourselves, this process will play an increasingly important, eventually fundamental role in politics--and not always for the better.
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- Chris Hables Gray
Cyborg Citizen: Politics in the Posthuman Age, 2001
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