CYBORG= MAN + MACHINE

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cyborg= A human who has certain physiological processes aided or controlled by mechanical or electronic devices. History Motoko Kusanagi, a total cyborg in Ghost in the Shell Enlarge Motoko Kusanagi, a total cyborg in Ghost in the Shell The concept of a man-machine mixture was widespread in science fiction before World War II. In 1908 Jean de la Hire introduced Nyctalope (perhaps the first true superhero was also the first literary cyborg) in the novel "L'Homme Qui Peut Vivre dans l'Eau" ("The man who can live in water"). Edmond Hamilton presented space explorers with a mixture of organic and machine parts in his novel "The Comet Doom" in 1928. He later featured the talking, living brain of an old scientist, Simon Wright, floating around in a transparent case, in all the adventures of his famous hero, Captain Future. In the short story "No Woman Born" in 1944, C. L. Moore wrote of Deirdre, a dancer, whose body was burned completely and whose brain was placed in a faceless but beautiful and supple mechanical body. The term was created by Manfred E. Clynes and Nathan S. Kline in 1960 to refer to their conception of an enhanced human being who could survive in extraterrestrial environments.