Poetry for Engineers: Cyborg Laboratory

<img src="https://spectrum.ieee.org/media-library/illustration-of-a-1950s-businessman-with-modern-robotic-limbs-collaged-over-his-arm-and-leg.jpg?id=66831451&width=1245&height=700&coordinates=0%2C187%2C0%2C188"/><br/><br/><p>This is the place where you face yourself,<br/>the you that could be you with a few<br/>different parts, a pump for your heart,<br/>eyes off color, and fresh off the shelf<br/>fake hair (a bit obvious), skin smoothed.<br/>You’re not perfect, but it’s a good start.</p><p>Down to small digits, you’ll be improved.<br/>Memory maintained by small motors,<br/>as long as these gizmos don’t glitch.<br/>What’s before you? Full replacement or<br/>a constant game of test and switch,<br/>pieces peeled off, disconnected, removed,<br/>until you are not yourself, at least,<br/>not the self you knew. That self has ceased,<br/>bit by bit less you at each release.</p> Reference: https://ift.tt/xbkhn9A