Evolution to cyborg

The idea of becoming a cyborg and being liberated by confines of gender, age, corporal body is utopian - and presumes that we're all very uncomfortable in our own skin, which may be a trusim in the case of graduate students, but is not the case, I think, in the general population. All the hype about the wonderous possibilites online assume that we're unhappy with the range of options right here now, options that a little ingenuity or money can provide. And it presumes that whatever is out there in cyberspace will be better than terrestrial possibilites. But would a fully actualized person need more? The search for happiness, many wise people have said, isn't out there, but begins within.
William Burroughs had a hilarious piece about how evolution is happening right now, but just too slowly for us to appreciate. He suggests we accelerate the process. As we venture out into space, our skeletons will become useless, and if we hope to thrive there, a jellyfish-like body would be more appropriate. And since we have the power to splice genes, we should be getting to work on evolving into just such a creature, since it may take a few generations and our planet is declining at an alarming rate. Burroughs makes a joke of people who think that there is something better to be gained by technology.
As far as cyborgs are concerned, I think it could be argued that a number of very simple technologies - a keychain, for example - turns you into a cyborg in ways similar to advanced computers with an internet connection. A keychain allows you access to other worlds, allows you to interact with different people, and people with a lot of keys can control, to some extent, the lives of other people. It is a question of scale and scope but isn't the idea the same?
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