I thought that the movie we watched today portrayed a sort of foreshadowing for the idea of the cyborg that we read about in the Clynes article. In the movie the workers were basically consumed by and incorporated into the machinery with which they worked. They walked stiffly and mechanically as if they were robots and performed mindless repetetive tasks. This image seems to describe the fears of the cyborg which Clynes discusses and and tries to dispel in his interview and description of his work.

Contrary to the popular terminator like image which is most often associated with the term cyborg, Clynes' idea is much more scaled back and purposeful. Though his ideas often sound fanciful they are all just coping strategies for a new environment. In addition he stresses the use of pharmaceuticals as one of the main ways to achieve these adaptations, which generally doesn't fall under the popular conception of the term cyborg. Physical modifications using machinery to replace organic parts is really a relatively small pert of his idea.

Bearing in mind the popular portrayal of a cyborg as a half man half machine freak, and Clynes' description more palatable idea of a cyborg more as a person whose body is regulated by chemical releasing implants, I think it is interesting to note that it is the former of these two types of cyborgs that actually exist. Prosthetics are becoming ever more advanced and artificial hearts have successfully helped keep people alive, while implants releasing body regulating drugs are relatively unheard of.