Cyborguesa con Queso

In my media theory classes we read this stuff that said that we humans, through our technology have become cyborgs. At first I thought, that's nuts...but think about it.
Now it's easy to see how someone like Sam Havens, our old Drama teacher is a cyborg, because he has an artificial hip and a pacemaker. There is an obvious parallel there as he clearly has machine parts. But we can extend it further. Take my mother who wears a hearing aid to help her fully understand the world. Is she not also a cyborg? Yes, i think you can clearly draw a line between her need for using the hearing aid and her ability to function in society.
So clearly we do have cyborgs living among us by the Six Million Dollar man definition of the word. But let's extend the metaphor further. What about the rest of us that don't have literal machine parts of our bodies but still are as dependent on technologies that they are, in a sense, a part of us.
Here in New York City people are as plugged into technology as anybody in the world could be. Everyone, barring the homeless, has a cell phone, ipod/cd player, personal computer, pda's, handheld games, digital cameras etc. On the subway you see everyone with headphones in the ear, doing shit on a pda-computer-cell phone. You have to carry everything on your person because you can't use your car like a portable storage device like you do in Houston or LA. A popular thing here are those tiny bluetooth headsets that go in your ear and have an external mic (these folks even look like cyborgs). The subway carries them where they need to go, replacing their feet as cars do in Houston and elsewhere.
I come home and plug in the computer, get my information on the TV, talk to joey on my cell phone etc.
You say, "yeah Jack, but I COULD live without all this stuff."
True, you could. But is it really feasible? You don't need the iPod, but a cell phone is damn near a necessity. Unless your some kind of hippie that only rides his bike and has a hemp powered lawn mower or whatever, you depend on technology everyday, and we are doing so more and more. Credit cards, purchasing on the Internet (hell, access to the Internet is a necessity!) etc is not a choice anymore. I registered for classes yesterday and I could not register on paper, only online.
I'm not one of those people that thinks robots will replace us or any of that crap. I know that we humans have lots of stuff a machine could never have mind, soul, creativity etc. But in a very real sense we are cyborgs. I've been obsessed with this idea for several weeks now. Marybec has taken to calling me a cyborguesa con queso. Umm...a hamburguesa con queso sounds good. See, a robot can't eat. I can because i'm just a metaphorical cyborg. Suck it Johnny 5.