Youth is absolutely necessary to create a pleasing image in the Cyborg realm, and the ageing process must be suppressed to keep this perfect image preserved. Society s expectations of physical perfection influence many aspects of our environment. Friendly Cyborgs, especially gynoids, are created in a generalized, societal perfect image to please the viewers and create a fantasy. The fantasy, such as Vicki in Small Wonder is an attempt to summarize what kind of daughter humans prefer. Youth imposed as good, ageing as bad, we humans obsess to stay young, and place images before us that remind us of who we should be, or what the people around us should be.
Eternal youth is our motive.
Mental Cyborgs Images of vitality, youth and aging infiltrate our lives everyday. These messages at times are received unconsciously as well as consciously. Every time we turn on our television sets, open a magazine, drive our cars and enter a department store we are besieged with messages of halting and reversing the aging process. We buy into these messages by responding to them. We become fixed with the notions of recapturing what aging has robbed us of.