Man-machine (odc. […]).

As an anthropologist interested in science, technology, and its heroes, I conducted an in-depth ethnographic study of Hawking: He essentially became my tribe.”
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What I discovered was that to understand Hawking, you had to understand the people and the machines without whom he would be unable to act and think; you had to understand the ways in which these entities augmented and amplified Hawking’s competencies.
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Hawking’s condition makes necessary the mechanization (the hierarchization, standardization, and routinization) of his human-machine based environment. This extended body network – composed of machines and human beings – allows a simple yes or a no to become operational.
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Hawking isn’t just issuing remote commands and expressed desires, his entire body and even his entire identity have become the property of a collective human-machine network.

On Stephen Hawking, Vader and Being More Machine Than Human
Hélène Mialet