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 In the article the cyborg advantage in wired magazine, Clive Thompson explains that there will never be a clear answer on when humans will be seeking machine intelligence into their personal lives because everyone is different. "It's a personal quest". Grandmasters of chess relied on many years of experience especially strategy and intuition to get that perfect move. Until kasparov created an online advanced chess that changed the game, by creating our world with machines. These days we debate how modern our world is becoming because of the things like virtual chess, online thinking and socializing.

 Virtual chess became an introduction to many other online games. Chess is an example to show that people are thrilled by personal technology. At one point in time chess was played with only intelligence and strategy. Only technology has given the opportunity to have an entrant, a virtual partner. As quoted “The ones who have optimized their process- they know how and when to rely on machine intelligence.

  Intelligence have gone into another level, you can either use it or abuse it. Online thinking has evolved into Google look up’s, Dictionary.com, Bing, etc... We can use these sites to gather information about just about anything we want to know. The use of these websites is to gain information. Many individuals abuse their own mind by cheating, instead of absorbing the information we copy and paste the information to the document.” We’re sure to depend increasingly on digital assistance for thinking and socializing, and each new technology will extend our reach while threatening to swallow even more of our attention”.  Socializing became a cyborg activity that happens day in day out. Facebook is a major influence on people ages 13-38 at least, it’s harder to call someone and talk about your day than just going online and creating a whole virtual conversation. As said in the article “…we rely on facebook or twitter to tell us about people we’re interested in…” It’s called the social network. I personally us it, but when I don’t I feel awkward. It’s strange how we depend on virtual relationships to keep things interesting.