In many films, the cyborg, evil or not, is actually a victim of the corporation. The stories of such cyborgs, though set in the future, resonate within us because we, too, have been cyborgized by corporate demands. One of the benefits of machines, of course, is that they can be remarkably efficient, far more so than human beings whose attention spans are not infinitely fixed as are those of machines. Humans want to chat, form social connections at the water cooler, space out, or otherwise do something besides the task at hand. Yet because we still need humans to work with the machines, capitalist enterprises, in their perpetual search for profit, force humans to behave like machines in order to keep up.
Technology makes people into machine parts.
Taylor performed time-motion studies on all sorts of repetitive tasks to come up with the most efficient methods of performing them. For instance, he broke the job of shoveling down into several discrete movements, and workers were instructed on the precise ways to hold their shovels and move their bodies in order to achieve maximum efficiency. Managers were thrilled with Taylor's work, claiming that it saved them substantial amounts of money, which demonstrated the profitability of turning humans into machines. The profit motive subsumes the needs of human workers to the demands of the corporation. Biological organisms have internal clocks that tell them when to eat, when to sleep.