ABSTRACT
Cyborgs have a very distinctive origin point in mid-twentieth century history. Cyborgs are key to the beginning of seriously powerful digital operations infiltrating almost every domain of life. The importance of military funding, also of large corporate communications funding, the Bell Telephone Laboratories and so on, are absolutely fundamental to the emergence of cyborgs as real entities and actors in the world. Cyborgs demanded a systems approach to system breakdown in the man-in-space program. The invention of cyborgs begins with laboratory rodents that were implanted with telemetric brain implants or with little dialysis bags that would alter salt or sugar balance. The first existing mammalian cyborgs were laboratory rats that were surrogates for Man in the man-in-space program. Cyborgs, in a really serious way, did not pre-exist the World War II and post-World War II intersections of organisms and systems theories in stressed environments.
