“So
he talked to me and said, ‘Would you like to write something jointly
with me? I will write about the drugs and you write about other physiological
systems.’ I said, ‘What do I know about this? I know nothing.’
Anyhow,
we agreed. I thought about it for a few days and I wrote something up and we
talked and compared ideas. I thought it would be good to have a new concept,
a concept of persons who can free themselves from the constraints of the environment
to the extent that they wished. And I coined this word cyborg. I remember he
said, ‘Oh, that sounds like a town in Denmark.’ Well, that seemed
alright.” (Clynes)
“
This
recent film with this Terminator, with Schwarzenegger playing this thing – dehumanised
the concept completely. This is a travesty of the real scientific concept we
had.”
Manfred Clynes