M. J. Hyland

Before MS moved in on me, I'd worked for seven years as a city lawyer, as the editor of a literary magazine, and before the age of 20, I'd also worked as a cadet journalist and as an assistant director in both film and TV. And then, after the lesions of MS, both on my spine and in my brain, I was the opposite of bionic.

English Author

John Scalzi

By the time I'm 75 and I have a new hip, and my eyes are laser cleaned of cataracts, I wont think I'm a bionic man. I think that's just how technology works. The posthuman future of humanity will not announce itself; it will just creep up on us.

American Author

Yuval Noah Harari

People already have bionic arms and legs that work by the power of thought. And we increasingly outsource mental and communicative activities to computers. We are merging with our smartphones. Very soon, they will just be part of the body.

Israeli Historian

Christina Aguilera

I think all of us as women have this super-human quality. We create life, we give life, we are the sources of life for our children - we're all pretty bionic.

American Musician

Caitlin Moran

Twitter means all my friends are in my computer. All my ideas are in my computer. I can do whatever I want in there; I'm kind of... bionic.

British Journalist

Clarence Clemons

Of all the surgeries I've had, there's not much left to operate on. I am totally bionic.

Darcey Bussell

My 'new' knee now feels like a bionic knee compared with my old one.

English Dancer

Used in discussions about healthcare and assistive technologies for disabled individuals.

Medical Context

Suggests improvement or enhancement of human abilities through technology.

Human Enhancement

Often appears in discussions about the future of human evolution and technology.

Cultural Impact

Commonly used in science fiction to describe characters with novel abilities.

Sci-Fi Genre

In sci-fi, bionic parts often provide abilities beyond normal human limits.

Superhuman Traits

Evokes curiosity and wonder about technological advancements in the human body.

Imaginative Innovation

 have been put on the motor cortex of completely quadriplegic patients and they can control a cursor or a wheelchair or initially a robotic arm and these devices are getting smaller and going into more and more of these patients still in clinical trials but imagine when we can connect these for example to the amazing bionic limb such as those of the DECA arm

Medicine's future?...

 So we have very different seats which adapt to the shape of the future passenger, with the different anthropometrics. We have social areas inside the aircraft which might turn into a place where you can play virtual golf. And finally, this bionic structure, which is covered by a transparent

Bastian Schaefer: A...

 I bet they never thought there'd be a bionic foot on their floor. This is the first floor of the building. But in the 13th century, the crusader church was above us. So we were just standing, a few moments ago, in another church right above me? Mm-hmm.

Underground Templar...

 that's now being used to make bridges lightweight, to make building beams lightweight. Actually G.M. Opel used it to create that skeleton you see, in what's called their bionic car. It lightweighted that skeleton using a minimum amount of material,

Biomimicry in action PIPE...

 My mind is no longer competing with the distraction of sound. It's freed up to think more creatively. There are advantages to having bionic body parts as well. It's undeniably convenient to be able to hear, and I can turn it off any time I want.

How technology has...

 Here, you can see my 24 sensors, six microprocessors and muscle-tendon-like actuators. I'm basically a bunch of nuts and bolts from the knee down. But with this advanced bionic technology, I can skip, dance and run.

How we'll become cyborgs...

 Imagine a future where clothing is stiff and soft where you need it, when you need it, for optimal support and flexibility, without ever causing discomfort. My bionic limbs are attached to my biological body

New bionics let us run,...

 as a three-year-old I was obsessed with the bionic man and at that time I was in I was in London with my parents and my father said to me that we were going to actually go and visit the bionic man

My life as an outsider PIPE...

 No matter how fabulous the code, how advanced the blockchain, digital cannot solve for trust alone. And that's why we found nine in 10 of the most successful ecosystems to be bionic trust systems,

Marcos Aguiar: 7 tools...

 a year ago after a brutal accident I lost my life and I chose to become Bionic I had to rethink my world my my identity my purpose my physicality all the pieces of my past endeavors they all