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Cyborg Memories.

Facebook's new On-This-Day feature brings back past memories on one's newsfeed, like the algorithmically generated Year-In-Review videos from Facebook and Google+. Cyberculture theorists in the 1990s described the integration of technology in everyday lives as the emergence of cyborgs (in the metaphorical rather than sci-fi sense); where humans increasingly interface with technologies to extend their functioning and bodies. In today's world of smartphones and cloud computing, we are living in that cyborg reality. However, instead of merely extending human functioning, the machine is now shaping the human

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