Some notes from chapters 1 and 2

-It was Manfred Clynes who actually first suggested the term “cyborg.”
-The Cyborg deliberately incorporates exogenous components extending the self-regulating control function of the organism in order to adapt it to new environments.
-As an acronym, cyborg stands for Cybernetic Organism or Cybernetically Controlled Organism
-The first cyborg was a white lab rat without a name, this rat had a simple implanted Rose osmotic pump
-The Rose pump was named so after its inventor, Dr. Rose.
-Rose incorporates a pressure pump capsule capable of delivering injections at a controlled rate.
-People with pacemakers could also be considered cyborgs to a degree!
- Cochlear implants electronically stimulate the auditory nerves, because of this, they enable many profoundly deaf humans to hear again
-However, they are currently limited by requiring the presence of a healthy, intact and non degenerated nerve
-We humans didn’t always keep precise, objectively measured time.
-Information appliances are characterized by three central features:
1. An information appliance is geared to support a specific activity, and to do so via the storage, reception, processing, and transmission of information.
2. Information appliances form an intercommunicating web. They can “talk” to each other.
3. Information appliances are transparent technologies, designed to be easy to use, and to fade into the background. They are poised to be taken for granted.
-A cyborg is a being with both organic and biomechatronic parts.
-The term was coined in 1960 by Manfred Clynes and Nathan S. Kline D. S. Halacy's Cyborg: Evolution of the Superman in 1965 .
-Donald Norman, a cognitive scientist, said that technology products we use today need to be learned how to use them and is not simple and reliable.  -Tangible computing is when the human is interacting with technology, and the interaction is meant to be as natural as possible. This displays technology being created to be used with the human interface.