Oh, absolutely! We're all cyborgs already. Irrespective of the actual interfaces we use to fuse ourselves with technology. Take yourself driving somewhere and

Oh, absolutely! We're all cyborgs already. Irrespective of the actual interfaces we use to fuse ourselves with technology. Take yourself driving somewhere and using navigation that shows where the traffic jams are. At that point you've effectively delegated the decision making for achieving the particular goal to the hive-mind, and you yourself have become a node in the larger network. At that point, 'you' effectively consist of: 1. Your wetware 2. The hardware of your car 3. The hardware of the device you use for navigation 4. The software of the device you use for navigation But it goes further than this. For ages it used to be the case that only the rich and the powerful could afford to elevate themselves to a status of a 'system'. That is, they would delegate significant parts of their functionality as a whole to other people. From physical defense of their wetware to enhanced decision making capabilities, and possibly even wiping one's bottom[0]. Lois XIV quote 'I am the state' is now known to be apocryphal. Yet, it wouldn't have actually been very far from the truth. You didn't necessarily have to be a king to extend yourself as a social system. But you would have to be rich and powerful. Now we live in a time where for many systemic functions that would've required a bunch of humans just a short while ago, you can find technological solutions that go at least 80% of the way if not more. Well set-up productivity tool systems can substitute large parts of what until recently you needed a personal assistant for, intelligent use of search engines and social media substitutes a bunch of people you would've hired to call other people, and access to trading platforms for better or worse have substituted one's broker. And it's only a few decades since this has been going on, I don't think we have the faintest idea of where this will lead to, but the change will be profound. It already is. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groom_of_the_Stool https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groom_of_the_Stool