Cyborg love may erase the fundamentals of humanism. 

Love still encapsulates raw humanism where two people can reproduce sharing a mix of emotions, touch and sensuality. With technology aiding the realms of human desires anyone can have a child whether they're alone, physically unfit, or mentally ill. Survival of this fittest is slowly becoming irrelevant and without weakness, limiting and balancing greed, so too might human morality. The integration of cyborg may consume humanism because humans instinctively thrive for more and when more becomes better the requirement for the old is soon no longer. The purpose of Tinder is to empower the users ability to connect with real or virtual identities and from there the cyber frontier is removed for the humanist love do develop. Technology integrated with humans to aid faster acquisitions of power and is now becoming the power that humans strive to attain. Tinder alone demonstrates technological advances in the acquisition of love but after the connection the technology is no longer required.

Technology is seen to “destabilise dominant concepts of autobiography” however the Tinder network is for now, resistant to complete virtuality (McNeill, L. 2012, p. 65). Tinder “insists on the stability of the ‘I’ and its verifiability” (McNeill, L. 2012, p. 65) because the basic humanist love requires real identity. Paul suggests identity to be a “story that happens to a body over time” and it exchanged verbally online allowing possible attraction between two people (kuttainen, V. 2016). If attraction of identity between exchanged stories is not verifiable, the attraction will have little stability in reality for love to evolve. 

Hobart, Strecko (2016) suggests it would be a “logical conclusion” to expect love to look proportionately different in the future given all the radical technological developments. 

Cyborg is already contributing to solo reproduction methods where humanist love is no longer a requirement. Removing necessity to love by allowing artificial reproduction and providing the power to love by virtual means may leave love, in the form of physical touch between two, to only exist in narrative until forgotten.

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Srecko, H, (2016) Love has to be reinvented. [TED Talk]. TedxBrussels. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hFy02TSH4U

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McNeill, L. (2012). There is no “I” in network: Social networking sights and postman autobiagraphy. Retrieved from http://learnjcu2016.jcu.edu.au