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Artistic representation is the precursor to invention. Just as 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea proved to be the world's first popular glance at the submarine, much modern technology has the humble beginning of an artist's simple innovation or an author's written fiction. Cyborgology proves no different when it comes to technological backgrounds. So what better place to start looking at ideas of the future than in the media of today. The representations of cyborgs in the media (including art, entertainment, games, and fiction) may just prove to be the norms for the cyborg society of the future.

Emergence of Virtual Idols
Looks into Japan's use of mechanical and cyber technology in pop culture in creating virtual cyborgs.

Love in the Online Sphere
How to navigate online dating and how different cultures approach the subject.

The Future Present of Brain Interfacing
Describes the current commercially available devices for interfacing a brain with a computer game, as well as what may be possible in the near future.

Jenkinson, Tom "Collaborating with machines." Flux 2004.

Ghazala, Reed "Designing Circuit-Bent Instruments."

Eno, Brian "Generative Music". In Motion Magazine July 1996.

Brown, Paul"Is the Future of Music Generative?"

FM3.

De la Torre, Monica "Into the Maze: OULIPO."

Eldridge, Alice "Cyborg dancing: generative systems for man-machine musical improvisation."

Trailer to Cyborg Movie

Domo Arigato Mr. Roboto

Bluetooth headset Cyborg Song

Quanah

Robot Song

Everybody wants to be a Robot

I'm a Cyborg, but it's Okay

60 Cycle Hum

Small Wonder

Girl Robot

Explanation of the software, only really watchable for the first minute or so.

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band by The Beatles

Beat It by Michael Jackson

Big Boobs

Robo surgery

More Robo Surgery

Robo Arm

Soldier with Machine Gun in Iraq

Robotic Soldiers in Iraq's History

Robot doctor