This article examines the relatively recent experiments inserting computerized implants into the human body for primarily non-therapeutic purposes. Most of the emphasis to date has been on how these practices improve communication, but we intend to examine them from the perspective of control and in the light of science fiction, which is an important purveyor of future possibilities on the ideas market and a mythological framework for the public’s reception of these technological “advances.” To present our argument and illustrate our remarks, we describe and analyze some of the possible modes of fusion of flesh and metal and the relationships between animate and inanimate that science fiction writers have imagined. This cutting-edge field, at the extreme limits of hybridization, challenges the very notion of humanity, the essence and limitations of which have been shattered by science and technology and the tendency in our society to prevent potential problems further upstream.