From the 1993 "Kinetic Engineering" VHS tape. Audio replaced with CD version. Originally from the 1992 album "Man-Amplified".
Liner notes:
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The first users of tools were not men (a fact appreciated only recently) but pre-human anthropods. The old idea that man invented tools is misleading, more accurately tools invented man - so began the symbiosis. The physicist J.D. Bernal's book published in 1929 called "The World, The Flesh and The Devil" decided that the numerous limitations of the human body could be overcome only by the use of mechanical attachments or substitutes until eventually all that might be left of man's original organic body would be the brain. The word "Cyborg" (cybernet organism) devised by Dr. Manfred Clynes and Nathan Kline, define a cyborg as "An exogenously extended organizational complex, functioning as a homeostatic system." Along with other computer experts Dr. Clynes believes that intelligence need not be confined to the DNA structure. He also believes that life is more a matter of relationships and organizations than of material. Clynes points out an understanding of the nature of our thoughts in terms of their mathematical, electronic and time-space identities which will permit us to communicate better than we do at the present time, we may find new shapes and discover means of utilizing them to communicate in entirely new ways, ways that cannot presently be imagined. A.C Clarke sees the outcome of the future of the man machines as eventually a machine based evolution. Whatever the key may be to longevity, man continues to amplify himself ever onwards in his desire to expand the nature of the self towards new points, new levels, that currently cannot be accurately predicted. The man amplifier is presently increasing its volume.
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