Found in  Wikipedia:

>A cyborg is a 
><http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki//wiki/Cybernetic>cybernetic 
><http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki//wiki/Organism>organism (i.e., an 
>organism that has both artificial and natural systems). The term was 
>coined in 1960 when 
><http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki//wiki/Manfred_Clynes>Manfred Clynes 
>and 
><http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki//w/index.php?title=Nathan_Kline&action=edit&redlink=1>Nathan
> 
>Kline used it in an article about the advantages of self-regulating 
>human-machine systems in outer space.[1] D. S. Halacy's Cyborg: 
>Evolution of the Superman in 1965 featured an introduction by 
>Manfred Clynes, who wrote of a "new frontier" that was "not merely 
>space, but more profoundly the relationship between 'inner space' to 
>'outer space' -a bridge...between mind and matter."[2] The cyborg is 
>often seen today merely as an organism that has enhanced abilities 
>due to <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki//wiki/Technology>technology,[3] 
>but this perhaps oversimplifies the category of 
><http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki//wiki/Feedback>feedback.


Hope this helps.

Peter Kepros
University of New Brunswick
Happily Retired

At 09:48 AM 8/24/2008,  Mike Palij wrote:
>The term cyborg is a combination of "cybernetic organism"
>which means that it is of recent origin (because Norbert
>Wiener used the word cybernetic first in the 1940s to
>refer to the processes of feedback and control in different
>processes and systems).  But my question is following:
>
>What is the first published use of the term cyborg and
>who used it?
>
>NOTE:  some of you might be familiar with the movie
>"Cyborg 2087" made in 1966, starring Michael Rennie
>who also starred in the great sci-fi film "The Day the
>Earth Stood Still" (Cyborg 2087, however, is no TDTESS).
>So, if cheesy sci-fi flicks were using the term cyborg by
>1966, when did it achieve widespread cultural acceptance?
>But this is a secondary issue.
>
>-Mike Palij
>New York University
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