Professor Jane Schmidt taught a series of courses on Cybernetics History.

Students were beginning to enter the classroom …

She paced back and forth while a holo projection played an introduction to an ancient TV show with a pilot crashing, receiving surgery, and running incredibly fast but displayed in slow motion.

The students gave her various peculiar looks as they sat down.

Once the intro finished, she stood still, spun around, and smiled while facing her students, “Hello, class, welcome to Our Cybernetic Dawn 101.”

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She then holo-projected images of bicycles—from the first kind with large wheels to electric-assisted … “I’ll start with our cybernetic origin. Our future started with the ‘e-bike,’ and it progressed through hub-drive innovations and torque-sensing mid-drive innovations to what is now us.”

“To us?” raised a student’s hand.

“Indeed!” Jane smiled. “The pre- cyborg’s legs were ad hoc, attached to the e-bike, which was transformative the moment they were mounted, but eventually, that leg power was implanted and merged, so it went on to cycling, walking, running, to power jumps.” She projected an image of the human anatomy with brain, visual, hearing, skeletal, muscular, and several major organ implants. “Eventually, most of our organs now have assistance options, for a price, of course.”

“That bicycle with an attached motor is our ancestor?” another student smirked.

“Indeed … “ Jane’s eyes widened. “That’s a clever way to look at it! We’re all children of the e-bike!”