It occurred to me (and probably others) that the description of a Cyborg in the media is usually defined as a alpha-males with superhuman capabilities, as for example portayed in Frankenstein, Roy Batty in Bladerunner and in The Matrix.
On the other hand Androids tend to appear rather on the female spectrum, often representing and satisfying male sexual phantasies of beauty and youth, perhaps most signified in the creation of Japanese robots called Fembots.
Is this asymmetry in the public portrayal of human/machine interaction another piece of evidence of gender bias transgressing into the virtual modern creative arts and engineering design?
On another note:
I was pleased to learn that when listening to Katherine Hayles on YouTube, that she has been in her previous professional life employed as a Chemist by Xerox and IBM, before moving into her current field of research.
She appears to be a rather rare example of a cross-cultural Doppel-Ganger, moving effortlessly between the natural and social sciences; bless her.
BTW does this make her a special subspecies of a ’cyborg’?
