A Huripheral, or Human Peripheral, is the notion of human beings becoming peripheral items to technology. Already, in everyday life, human beings act as the servants to technology following instructions given by the short messages that appear on computer screens or other display devices. Satellite Navigation already has "Turn Left" and "Fill Up in 20 miles" and other more direct technologies exist such as "Checkout number three please" automated messages that appear in some shops or the equivalent in your local medicinal practitioner.

Vending machines now have "insert money" and "replace cups", printers tell us to "replace toner" and "order more ink" – directing us to perform physically coordinated activities that technology has yet to discover how to achieve by itself.

At some point human kind stopped being entirely independent of thought and are slowly becoming huripheral devices to technology. Eventually we may be made redundant altogether.

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