Military

Cyborgs get a lot of their fame and infamy from the military. The military and the medical sector are the main pursuers of new cyborg technology today. Whether soldiers use guns and tanks to complete missions, or they receive missions through satellite communication, they are part of a cyborg network. Whole new tactics are being taken in war to attack and obtain information itself. Catastrophic weapons are getting developed so that the standard soldier may wield them. The soldier of the Post Modern era will be the ultimate Cyborg Soldier.

Suicide Attack
Although the term cyborg is more recent than the idea of suicide attack, it is still a very useful descriptive tool. Rather than soldiers simply carrying weapons, suicide bombers use technology to become a weapon themselves. This profoundly changes the perception of the combatant. This altered perception is a direct result of the cyborgian nature of such a system. Without this transformation, much of the fear instilled by suicide attacks would be lost.

BCI Technology, Not Just a Dream
Describes all the different field related to by brain-computer interfacing.

Prosthetics: A Cybernetic Evolution
The term "cyborg" is culturally attached with certain stereotypes or stigmas, but many people don't realize that something like prosthetics are incorporated into this term as well. it is estimated that there are between 400,000 to over a million amputees living in the United States.

Vehicles in the Military
The cyborgian concept in part, is about a bond that forms between humans, the tool users, and our tools. In the world of cyborgs, the military has unconsciously created an entire division of ways that humans may interact with machine

Medical Cyborgization
The use of foreign devices implanted into the body as a way of medical restoration, has been employed in medical science for decades. Medical research has focused heavily on restorative technology. Even though huge strides have been made in this area of medical science, there are still gaps in critical places, such as restoring full movement and senses to a paralyzed body. Medicine-based restorative implants are employed in every part of the body, from the brain all the way down to the feet.

Teleoperated Vehicles
A brief history of the conception and evolution of the use of drones in warfare, followed by speculation as to what the future battlefield may resemble and the many possible roles of cyborg-systems in that landscape.

Cyborg Sharks: The Military Has a New Toy
Military Cybernetic Enhancements and Soldiers
Information War

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