Journal I

I think it would be fair to say that, currently, most people are living de facto cybernetic lifestyles. There are somewhat streamlined bio technologies that people's lives depend on (pacemakers, artificial limbs, cochlear ear implants,ect.) and more social technologies that others feel as though their lives depend on (Blackberries,cellular phones, domesticated GPS devices, ect.). Even though the most organic looking of the cybernetic technologies are not seen excessively, that is what they are meant for, to look natural. They are also very expensive, and until they become affordable for all the public they most likely will not be seen everywhere. Regarding communication devices, from what I know, they are for the most part entirely external. Eventually we may come to a precipus when it comes to hi-tech biotechnologies and what a human is. Even considering what is a cyborg is on more “realistic”terms may happen in my lifetime. Due to the over whelming incompetence of most people would make me think it's a little farther off then some others may believe. Any sort of maintenance that would have to be kept up by the person with a cybernetic device would be far less successful than some one with self-sustaining cybernetic technologies.
What we would be once considered a Cyborg in the recent past, now passes for almost the norm by today's standards. Everyday you see people with headset walking around talking to people, even keeping these headsets on after they have concluded their conversations. Even our memories are being replaced by technology. There is a galore of new devices that record memories through audio and video with very high quality. Many people become so dependent on these devices that it can be said that actually memory is not being valued as highly as digital memory. This has a sort of dehumanizing effect on a person, you can lose your sense of self if you don't have your own memories. The down playing of critical thought plays an active part in how this fact is ignored by some people, maybe for the purposes of easier rampant consumerism.
We are even given the option in some stores to have bank account information be linked to our thumb prints for a “safer, quicker payment option”. Part of this can be attributed to our modern cultures obsession with rampant commercial exploitation and having “the new thing”. Progress in smaller, more accessible technology is a major contributing factor as to why so many people have more of everything electronic. Before when such things as hand held camera or small recording devices were around they would have be marketed more towards people in a business field that would require such things. Much of the technology was more bulky and cumbersome. Many of the new devices we have now combine several different functions into one format. We can keep our camera-phone-computer-tracking-device-recorder on us at all times.
Medical technologies have also made many new inroads as far as what they can put inside us to keep living and on the move. Hip, knee, shoulder replacements, drugs that can act as various stimulator, and smaller and smaller electronic devices that are inserted into various parts of the body. Even the technology that goes into how we are operated on. When one sees the robotic arms that are meant to work on a person, is can look similar to what you might see on a car assembly line.

Sources:
1. Finger print access controller
2. Human Ethics: what is a cyborg?
3. Biotechnology
4. Cell Phones
5. Digital memory cards