As we move further into the future humans are becoming more and more like machines. Being a cyborg does not have to mean a completely new form of life, or how much of you is artificial or prosthetic. In Donna Haraway’s eyes “looking at a shelf of carbo-loaded bodybuilding foods, checking out the Nautilus machines, and realizing that she’s in a place that wouldn’t exist without the idea of the body as high-performance machine” (Kunzru, You are a Cyborg). Everything we do is a calculated move to maintain our bodies and this in way is treating our body like a machine.

In a different sense, we are also moving towards becoming cybernetic organisms through technological additions to our bodies. In He, She, and It Shira addresses how almost everyone in their society has cybernetic enhancements for their interaction with the net. Shira uses this comparison as a way to show Yod, her cyborg love interest, that he is really not so much different from the society he in and doesn’t always have to feel like the outsider.  The society depicted in the novel He, She, and It is much further in the future, but machine like enhancement are also seen today through innovations like prosthetics, wearable devices, and medical implants. The future is also moving towards making humans more efficient and the path to this is implementing parts of machines into human, such as the talk of implanting credit card chips into hands.