We Are All Cyborgs Now

In a recent paper Benjamin Wittes and Jane Chong argue that conceptually people have started to transform into cyborgs. Commuters are buried in their smartphones, veterans use robotic prostheses, and pacemakers help keep people’s hearts beating. Devices like these have blurred the line between man and machine. Wittes and Chong develop a theoretical legal model for addressing this process, which they call cyborgization.