Where the Human Ends & the Machine Begins: Getting Unclearer…

Feb 032012
 
Where the Human Ends & the Machine Begins: Getting Unclearer…

What we conceptualize as our discrete Physical Self isn’t nearly as cut and dried as we might think, and the non-corporeal Mental Self seems to have some blurry boundaries as well. We’re Cyborgs, man. Philosophical Cyborgs.

 February 3, 2012  Posted by at 12:19 PM Aging Society, AI, Artificial Intelligence, Brain, Consciousness, Cybernetics, Exoskeleton, Future Already Very Pending, Here First or Best Here, Human Augmentation, Kurzweil, Medical Technology, Prosthetics, Technology, The Beginning is Near, Transhuman, Transhumanism, Transhumanism Test Pilots, We're Already Cyborgs Already

The Disabled Wage War Against the Wheelchair and Begin Test-Piloting Transhumanism

Jan 102012
 
The Disabled Wage War Against the Wheelchair and Begin Test-Piloting Transhumanism

Disabled pioneers are living examples of how technology is blurring the lines between what is considered practical, necessary augmentation and what, someday soon, might be just a nice alternative to flesh – a voluntary upgrade.

 January 10, 2012  Posted by at 1:28 PM AI, Artificial Intelligence, Brain, CareBots, Cybernetics, Exoskeleton, Human Augmentation, Military Robotics, Neurology, Prosthetics, Robot, Technology, Technology & Disability, Transhuman, Transhumanism, Transhumanism Test Pilots, We're Already Cyborgs Already

Moving a Robot/With a Kinect/Over the Internets/Is a Revolution

Nov 242011
 
Moving a Robot/With a Kinect/Over the Internets/Is a Revolution

Yasakawa Japan has retrofitted one of their robots with an off the shelf MS Kinect. And just like that, telepresence takes a huge leap forward.

 November 24, 2011  Posted by at 11:50 AM CareBots, Cybernetics, Exoskeleton, Future Already Very Pending, Human Augmentation, Internet, Japan 日本 Tekk, Medical Robots, Medical Technology, Microsoft, Prosthetics, Robot, Technology, Technology & Labor, Technology & Work, Telepresence, The Beginning is Near, We're Already Cyborgs Already

Prosthetic with Nokia Smartphone Dock: An Anachronism Trapped in an Anachronism!

Oct 282011
 
Prosthetic with Nokia Smartphone Dock: An Anachronism Trapped in an Anachronism!

Lots of cash is needed for the Luke Arm or the Stark Hand other super-tech prosthetics, so there’s obviously great value in augmenting and/or retrofitting the prosthetics people already have – and this one’s a technological timeline dissonance matryoshka!

 October 28, 2011  Posted by at 12:54 PM Cybernetics, Exoskeleton, Human Augmentation, Medical Technology, Prosthetics, Technology, We're Already Cyborgs Already

Humanity 2.0 Part Two: Juan Says We’re Designing the Next Species of Humans.

Oct 212011
 
Humanity 2.0 Part Two: Juan Says We're Designing the Next Species of Humans.

Juan Enriquez says the ability to re-engineer living things and engineer entirely new ones is far and away the biggest thing since a bunch of other big things (even bigger than the industrial revolution). So… Cool, yeah?

 October 21, 2011  Posted by at 11:28 AM Aging Society, AI, Artificial Intelligence, Brain, Consciousness, Cybernetics, Exoskeleton, Future Already Very Pending, Genomics, Human Augmentation, Medical Technology, Neurology, Prosthetics, The Beginning is Near, Transhuman, Transhumanism

Transhumanist Arts Make Me Want New Parts

Oct 052011
 
Transhumanist Arts Make Me Want New Parts

That kinda looks like the Death Star in an eyeball. Here’s a very nice gallery of transhumanist art (PART II). It’s cool. Go look at it. One day we’ll become it. Which is going to be awesome – because my knees are like totally shot. [VIA SINGULARITY HUB]

 October 5, 2011  Posted by at 1:30 PM AI, Artificial Intelligence, Brain, Cybernetics, Exoskeleton, Human Augmentation, Medical Technology, Neurology, Prosthetics, Robot, Robot Art, Technology, Transhuman

Darth Cheney, Stephen Hawking, Myself, and the Rest of Our Cyborg Society

Sep 212011
 
Darth Cheney, Stephen Hawking, Myself, and the Rest of Our Cyborg Society

Let’s say you are in some serious trouble. You need some heavy altruistic help of a very selfless nature. Who would you want to decide your fate? The “purer” Bronze Age human from 5000 years ago? Or the hyper-augmented cyborg from 2061?

 September 21, 2011  Posted by at 4:52 PM AI, Artificial Intelligence, Audio Posts, Brain, Cybernetics, Exoskeleton, Future Already Very Pending, Here First or Best Here, Human Augmentation, Medical Technology, Neurology, Prosthetics, Technology, The Beginning is Near, We're Already Cyborgs Already
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