While there are, as he distinguishes from true "symbiosis", many instances of the "Mechanically Extended Man", I found it a bit of a challenge to immediately think of present day examples of man-computer symbiosis.
Present day examples of polyploidy are particularly widespread in the plant kingdom (Bowers et al. 2003; Jiao et al. 2011).
Of the many hundreds of cultivars named and sold in the 19th and early 20th centuries, few have survived to the present day; examples of some that are still available are 'Emperor Fredrick', 'Emperor William' (aka 'Kaiser Wilhelm'), 'Defiance' and 'Blanche de Meru'.
A present-day example of unregulated U mining/milling is the Atlas Corporation Moab Uranium Mill Tailing (Moab, UT).
In contrast, thorough studies of present-day examples of transient slope fans, i.e. those fans that are connected to a deeper depositional area, are not available.
My visit to the Nightingale museum also presented me with a modern day example of finding one's calling, even at a later age.
The most familiar present-day example is a reading or magnifying glass.
Upstate New York is home to an instructive present-day example.
These present-day examples are just a hint as to what the future of commerce will look like.
This fundamental belief that black life is expendable can be traced from enslavement to the present day, in, for example, policies of policing, surveillance and imprisonment, redistricting and voter ID laws, neoliberal privatization and the widely regurgitated rhetoric that refashions black suffering into black pathology.
For example, successful orders could be defined as those with the most present-day species, or as those that have persisted to the present day regardless of group size.
