steve mann is exploring augmented reality. while a lack of implants disqualifies the cyborg moniker, cf gargoyle, his experience is nevertheless one we will share in a few short years.
increasing the range of sensory inputs while increasing filtering capabilities strikes me as an excellent way to redefine who we are. we are what we perceive.

In his 2000 book “Cyborg: Digital Destiny and Human Possibility in the Age of the Wearable Computer,” Mann wrote about the surreal beauty he experienced in programming the computer in his vision to alter colors, or alert him to objects behind him.
“The wearable computer allows me to explore my humanity, alter my consciousness, shift my perspectives so that I can choose — any given time — to see the world in very different, often quite liberating ways,” he wrote in “Cyborg.”
For example, Mann and his graduate students have developed software that can transform billboards or other rectangular shapes in the physical world — when viewed through the lens of a wearable computer — into virtual boxes for reading e-mail and other messages.

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