Man's Inventiveness Looking More Like The Borg

Will we remain human or are we facing a future that overtakes our humanness, creating monstrous beings? Half organic and half machine. Some of you might remember Star Trek's Captain Picard, captured and turned into a Borg connected and directed by one collective mass mind. It may be imaginative to see all humans connected to a one-mind, mass-directed organic-machine, Borg, controlling our minds and bodies. But aren't we just a few steps away from such development with the ongoing research into Artificial Intelligence and the introduction of biological components into machines and vice versa? Could this happen? As man's exploration and inventiveness continues gathering strength and future generations, reared in the daylight of "push the envelop" technology, absorb it, the world will be transformed. But Pandora's Box has opened alongside creating problems and complications which may over time accumulatively cross some invisible line leading to our downfall. How this technology affects humans, from individuals to nations and governments, is the real question. Some universities offer whole courses devoted to exploring the effects of modern technology on humans. Tech tools are changing us, even if we find these cyborg tools convenient. Questions abound as to the deeper ramifications on mankind and our world. Chips under the skin, laser scanners, bionics, gene mixing, designer babies, global communications, cloning, genetic interventions, nano robotics, etc., - we are already living a global, pre-Borg lifestyle.