cyborg 1960

The Japanese government believes robots and humans can live happily side by side. Our correspondent steps into the shoes of an “immigrant from the future”.

A dispatch for The Economist’s 1843 magazine

Behind the scenes of Japan’s robot revolution

What it feels like to be a cyborg

ECON.ST

Cristiano Ronaldo was a self-motivating near-cyborg who took 3am ice baths in Real Madrid’s training complex - 'Even though he had Irina Shayk waiting for him at home!'

(Illustration by James Ferguson)

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The coach Europe's elite football clubs hire when they want to win trophies on managing galactic egos - and how big businesses like his new club Bayern Munich can still be a family

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cyborg 

Pronunciation: /ˈsʌɪbɔːɡ/ 

NOUN

A fictional or hypothetical person whose physical abilities are extended beyond normal human limitations by mechanical elements built into the body.

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Origin

1960s: blend of cyber- and organism.