Through two readings pertaining to technology and the body which synthesized is considered cybernetic technology, there is a range of positivity and fear of the technology and its integration into natural environments and organisms. In the first reading, Cyborgs and Space by Manfred Clynes and Nathan Kline, there is a optimistic tone to how cyborgs can positively affect travel and human conditions. “Space travel invites man to take a active part in his own biological evolution” according to Clynes and Kline which emphasis the need for homeostatic mechanism which are designed to provide stable operation in the particular environment. These artificial mechanisms take advantage of inheriting limitations to create a realm of new possibilities with mechanical aid. While conditions of physical biology are beginning to be resolved or experimented with, physiological issues of breaking this biological operational barrier needs to be addressed for applications such as long space-time journeys. The benefit of Cyborgs come into focus at this point to create self-regulating man-made machines functioning autonomously freeing people to explore and create new possibilities as machines facilitate organizational and mundane tasks. Clyne and Kline argue cyborgs allow for a improved physiological conditions of relaxation and focus similar to meditation or hypnosis. For example Cyborgs have the ability to have pharmacological and spiritual approaches combined to improvise physiology as well as supplements to activities or bodily functions such as sleep to improve productivity in new environments such as space travel or regulating metabolic or hypothermic levels. Using a similar concept to the reading from Wolfgang Schivelbusch, space-time relationship are altered by cyborg technologies transforming the scale and condition of the body over aging time scales.

Contrastingly, in the Cyborg Manifesto written by Donna Hardaway, examines communication technologies and biotechnologies and redefining the human body and our interactions with society. However unlike Clyne and Kline, she views information system networks and hierarchical informatics of domination as it relates to biotechnologies fearfully. What started as coding and human genetics and more advance developments such as genetic engineering and reproduction can have negative outcomes and create political divides that can be disruptive and harmful to society and culture. She concludes explaining “communications science and modern biologists ads constructed by a common move, a search for a common language in which all resistance to instrumental control disappears and all heterogeneity can be submitted to disassembly, reassembly, investment, and exchange.”