TABLE OF CONTENTS Recently there has been a lot of discussion about futuristic wars between humans and robots, robots taking over the world and enslaving humans. Movies like The Terminator, Star Wars, etc., have propogated these ideas faster than anything else. These movies are beautiful works of fiction and present us with an interesting point of view to speculate. However, the truth is much different but equally as interesting as the fiction. If you look around yourself you will see several machines and gizmos within your surroundings. When you use a simple pair of spectacles, do you become nonliving? When an elderly person uses a hearing aid or a physically challenged person uses an artificial leg or arm do they become half machine? Yes, they do. Now we are rapidly moving toward an era where we will have chips embedded inside our bodies. Chips will communicate with our biological sensors and will help us in performing several activities more efficiently. An artificial retina is almost at the final stages of its development. Now we are thinking in terms of nanobots helping us to strengthen our immune systems. Now we are already on the verge of becoming half machine. Chips will be implanted inside our bodies imparting telescopic and microscopic abilities in our eyes. Cell phones will be permanently placed inside the ear. We will communicate with different devices not through a control panel or keyboard; rather these devices will receive commands from the brain...
