According to some definitions of the term, the metaphysical and physical attachments humanity has with even the most basic technologies have already made them<unk> s. In a typical example, a human fitted with a heart pacemaker or an insulin pump (if the person has diabetes) might be considered a<unk> , since these mechanical parts enhance the body's "natural" mechanisms through synthetic feedback mechanisms. Some theorists cite such modifications as contact lenses, hearing aids, or intraocular lenses as examples of fitting humans with technology to enhance their biological capabilities; however, these modifications are no more cybernetic than would be a pen, a wooden leg, or the spears used by chimps to hunt vertebrates. Cochlear implants that combine mechanical modification with any kind of feedback response are more accurately<unk>  enhancements.
The prefix "cyber" is also used to address human-technology mixtures in the abstract.  This includes artifacts that may not popularly be considered technology. Pen and paper, for example, as well as speech, language. Augmented with these technologies, and connected in communication with people in other times and places, a person becomes capable of much more than they were before. This is like computers, which gain power by using Internet protocols to connect with other computers. Cybernetic technologies include highways, pipes, electrical wiring, buildings, electrical plants, libraries, and other infrastructure that we hardly notice, but which are critical parts of the cybernetics that we work within.
Bruce Sterling in his universe of Shaper/Mechanist suggested an idea of alternative<unk>  called Lobster, which is made not by using internal implants, but by using an external shell (e.g. a Powered Exoskeleton).[citation needed] (Bruce Sterling: Cicada Queen). Unlike human<unk> s that appear human externally while being synthetic internally, a Lobster looks inhuman externally but contains a human internally. The computer game Deus Ex: Invisible War prominently featured three clans of Omar, where "Omar" is a Russian translation of the word "Lobster" (since the clans are of Russian origin in the game). Sterling's distinction between<unk> s and Lobsters may have been a reaction to the Terminator films and their outwardly human, internally mechanical<unk> s dominating popular conception of the term. However, regardless of popular conception, Sterling's Lobsters are well within the technical definition of a<unk> , and so the term has no useful application outside of fiction.
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