Human or robot?

After watching the video above, it occurred to me the near-future contains a critical choice for humanity's evolution: Will robots become more like humans, or vice versa?

It doesn't take much to imagine how robots can become more like humans. Our movies and tv are filled with human-like androids. But how can humans become more like robots? Implantation of devices which can communicate with our brains and muscles and body parts, to create a cybernetic organism, or cyborg for short.

The beauty of science fiction is that it has already considered both possibilities, and determined how humanity can be destroyed in either direction.

For robots taking over the world, we only have to look at the Terminator movies for that possibility. Hasta la vista, humanity!

The other side has only been hinted at in science fiction, but the hints are pretty nasty: Consider Star Trek's alien race, The Borg. While the Borg could be from any race, the implications for humanity are clear: Humanoid races, injected with nanoprobes which build cybernetic implants in the body. The implants allow the being to join the "collective" in thought, thereby losing their own individuality and merely serving whatever the collective wants. It is the perfect socialist state, although I am sure the socialists would deny it. It is the ultimate "tyranny of the majority".

My opinion is humanity will end up with some kind of implants to improve ourselves, at the very least brain implants to bring us up to speed with the most advanced androids. If we don't, we will end up as zoo exhibits for the androids to come and gawk at on their weekends.