Norbert Weiner created the term, cybernetics which uses "computer technology as a means to extend human capabilities" (http://www.livinginternet.com/i/ii_wiener.htm). This shows the connection between both humans and technology and how the are so closely related (human beings communicating through technology like a vessel).
Computer technology can be related so closely to artificial life as it stereotypically uses the idea that comes to our minds when we think of aliens or life that is literally out of this world. Technology such as the Nintendo Wii or Microsoft Kinect make us believe that such advancements in technology are unreal. Controlling what occurs through the television are extremely similar to that of sci-fi films that use communicational methods that are beyond their time and as we pick up how to use this technology so quickly, it can result in questions such as 'are we technology?' Marshall Mcluhan describes us as being the " the sex organs of the machine world" (Understanding Media, 1964).
As we all generally live life in a particular way, (birth, school/learning, working, retirement, death) it is possible that we are also machine like as we live life in a pattern/structure that we rarely control. In being machine like we can therefore see ourselves as being cybernetic organisms which is a term "put forward by Manfred E. Clynes and Nathan S. Kline in 1960 to describe a self-regulating man-machine system, supposed to be more flexible than the human organism thanks to the fusion of orgnic and mechanical parts.” (Dani Cavallario, Cyberpunk and Cyberculture page 45).
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