Ergobots

The question is no longer "Will robots take over the world;" it's more like "what will it mean to be human?"

Mobile handsets are the exocortex. Social media platforms are the virtual acropolis, populated with quasi artificial intelligentities. When you try to find a date online, you're fielding messages from semi-automated algorithms. When you call your network provider, you're talking to a fully-automated algorithm.

When you're heart gets too old to work by itself, you get a pacemaker. You're part robot. When you lose your eyeballs, for whatever reason, you get a headset that sees for you and translates visual stimuli into auditory signals that you can now perceive. You're an eyeborg.

So it's no surprise that your measly meatbody now gets support from an exoskeleton. These exosuits have been on the scene for a minute, but geared towards folks who can't move in the first place, due to spinal injuries, for example. Now they're in strenuous work environments. Tomorrow your mom will be telling you to put on your exosuit before you go out to shovel snow.

Notes:
Ford brings 'exosuits' to workers in 15 factories
Aug 2018, BBC