bionic adj.

‘Operate? Plastic-surgery?’ The doctor looked puzzled. ‘We use bionic methods.’

The bionic machines and synthetically intelligent systems of tomorrow.

His brain is now tremendously amplified by the link to the computer. So far, he’s the only human survivor of the applications of our research. We lost the other two to brain damage during the bionic installation phase.

I threw myself on the mercy of Esmerelda, a black librarian of somewhere between ninety and a hundred who contained within her bionic hairdo all knowledge, or the ability to find it.

The fingertips of her natural right hand almost but not quite aligned with the crude bionic structure that served as her left hand.

‘Brain-Computer Interface,’ his mother said, as if that explained everything. She used the same voice she had used when he was five to tell him where the cattle went when they were loaded onto trucks.[...] The lines in her forehead and the set of her jaw told Andy she was concerned, even if her words hid it. ‘They put electrodes and a chip in your motor cortex,’ she continued. ‘You’re bionic.’

The Human Integrity Act’s prohibition of bionic replacement limbs and organs had been one of its most controversial provisions, for they were one of the more defensible forms of man-machine interfacing.