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Today humankind is able to modify their bodies, to live longer and healthier lives and thus allows the human body to further evolve through the help of technology. It extends human minds and the limited abilities of the human body and in doing so, redefines and extends what it means to be human. In the digital world, people can create new identities. Those identities, in turn, have an enormous impact on their non-digital counterparts’ lives — thus making people’s online identities into an extension of themselves, and a kind of virtual being. The emergence of tools such as virtual reality, computer generated imagery, and both of them enveloped in artificial intelligence, has further enabled human extension into virtual environments. In a way, this has created a new ecosystem- digital and nondigital living in conjunction as a system in the modern world. As emerging technologies are occupying more space in people lives, becoming more humanlike and realistic, it is essential to examine the embodiment relation they bring. It is important today as these technologies have a growing impact onto our society as it occupies more time in our lives. Furthermore technology has the ability to inherit the world views of its creators. The emerging technologies pose dangers and a greater impact on the society than intended, by reinforcing the biased moral values of its creators and, therefore, strengthen gender standards.

2019