Amber Case - Prosthetic Culture

Study of history is Science in my book, but this is more like a college term paper in my opinion bordering more on philosophy rather then science. Some can say Philosophy is science that studies the human condition but this is a small video with delusions of grandeur. Lets just agree to disagree and leave it at that. I have my opinions and you have yours, as to me missing the point of the vid? Umm... again lets just say difference of opinion. ^^

You clearly missed the entire point of the video then.

Thinking to understanding to knowlege is science. Engineering application, study of history, or social theory etc., are all science to me.
Some people out there love to put class value on things and whine about what's elite and what's trivial. People are so smart they don't know they're trapped in an ivory tower.

See ElNerdoLoco's quote. It explains it perfectly.

Very true, but what my peeve with this video is this modern culture anthropology with a lot of hypothetical implications for the future. Yet, they are trying label today's culture as "cybernetic" listing our present day tools as an example. Since we are a oil based society and it is a limited resource soon the tools we use today will have to be replaced, just because we know about event horizon, doesn't mean we can reach it. So what I see from this study is a waste of money if there were grants

Yeah, I suppose it would be a waste of grant money since no new knowledge is gained. It is more philosophy than science. Still, it is interesting, and may even do a bit to popularize science. At the very least, it is an entertaining video that is somewhat mind expanding in that it introduces a new way of thinking about humanity. Gnomedex calls itself, "The technology conference of inspiration and influence." So I do not know how directly funded this may have been, but you must admit it was fun.

What I was asking is that really valid branch of science? And no I am not talking temrinator or something like that, the definition of a cyborg is an organism that has both biological parts and artifical parts, holding a cell phone or typing on a keyboard does not make you a cyborg, as the stars of this vid are trying to imply. If that is the case driving a tractor would make you a cyborg.

Well, I guess that particular aspect is not science as it is simply a matter of semantics. But it was never put forth as science. The purpose I perceived from this video was that it was an attempt to make us rethink what we really are and what we will be in the future. That for all practical reasons we may as well be considered cyborgs and will not resort to artificial replacements or implants unless they offer far greater advantages to external, separate components.

A cyborg is simply an organism with both natural and artificial systems. Why replace organic systems when they can be augmented without doing yourself irreparable harm? The sci-fi depiction of cyborgs is meant to cause fear or make them seem inhuman more than to show the benefits. We are not chopping off and replacing limbs, but we are traveling faster than speed of sound. We are communicating with the entire world at the speed of light. We are far more than human. Cyborg fits pretty well.