Summary Man-Computer Symbiosis - Observatory
Summary Man-Computer Symbiosis - Observatory
Summary Man-Computer Symbiosis - Observatory
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general, it will carry out the routinizable, clerical operations that fill the intervals between<br />
decisions.<br />
In addition, the computer will serve as a statistical-inference, decision-theory,<br />
or game-theory machine to make elementary evaluations of suggested courses of action<br />
whenever there is enough basis to support a formal statistical analysis. Finally, it will do<br />
as much diagnosis, pattern-matching, and relevance-recognizing as it profitably can, but<br />
it will accept a clearly secondary status in those areas…<br />
COINING THE WORD CYBORG<br />
Cyborgs and space<br />
Altering man’s bodily functions to meet the requirements of extraterrestrial<br />
environments would be more logical than providing an earthly environment<br />
for him in space . . . Artifact-organism systems which would extend man’s<br />
unconscious, self-regulatory controls are one possibility<br />
By <strong>Man</strong>fred E. Clynes and Nathan S. Kline ROCKLAND STATE HOSPITAL,<br />
ORANGEBURG, N. Y .<br />
SPACE travel challenges mankind not only technologically but also<br />
spiritually, in that it invites man to take an active part in his own biological<br />
evolution. Scientific advances of the future may thus be utilized to permit man’s<br />
existence in environments which differ radically from those provided by nature as<br />
we know it.