I am a cyborg afterall

So waaaaaaaay back in week 3 when we had the lecture about cyborgs I was just a tiny bit cynical.
I thought "meh, i'm not a cyborg, i'm not dependent on technology.."
maybe i was just trying to reassure myself that I didn't have to rely on technology.
HOWEVER
the other day I accidentally left my phone at home..
now I'm not really a texting person as such.. I don't often have conversations with people over text.. nor do i really have to find out where people are.. I usually know where my friends hang out.
BUT
without my phone I felt completely cut off from everyone..
It was really quite stressful.
This made me realize how much I depended on this little piece of technology.
I was always slightly scornful when people said things like "oh i can't live without my phone" but it turns out, I can barely just survive.
I think our dependence on technology isn't necessarily a bad thing though.
Being a cyborg seems kinda cool anyway.
however, I DO think that half of it is just mindset. We are not constantly on our phones or ipods or laptops, but we like knowing that it's there, in our bags or pockets so that we can use them at will.

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