Bionic & Biological: The Ferocious Conundrum of Being 50/50

Mar 072012
 
Bionic & Biological: The Ferocious Conundrum of Being 50/50

We are going to be redefining notions of life and intelligence and awareness and consciousness and pretty much every facet of human existence. Barring global cataclysm, of course.

 March 7, 2012  Posted by at 2:30 PM Bionic, Cybernetics, Exoskeleton, Future Already Very Pending, Here First or Best Here, Human Augmentation, Medical Robots, Medical Technology, Multimedia, Prosthetics, Technology, Technology & Disability, Transhuman, Transhumanism, Transhumanism Test Pilots, We're Already Cyborgs Already

Transhumanism Test Pilots: Fly-by-Tongue

Feb 292012
 
Transhumanism Test Pilots: Fly-by-Tongue

The primitive yet practically necessary prosthetics and human augmentation implements of today could easily evolve into the voluntary upgrades of tomorrow. Here’s a very good example of human body as input device.

 February 29, 2012  Posted by at 9:25 AM Aging Society, Brain, Cybernetics, Exoskeleton, Human Augmentation, Medical Technology, Neurology, Prosthetics, Technology, Technology & Disability, Transhuman, Transhumanism, Transhumanism Test Pilots, We're Already Cyborgs Already

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

Technology Will Eradicate Barbarians & Drum Circles and Fix Everything

Jan 262012
 
Technology Will Eradicate Barbarians & Drum Circles and Fix Everything

Technological utopianism might be just as foolish as vegan white people with dreadlocks or those with a super-spooky, vengeful, punishing father figure in the sky. But I kinda really seriously doubt it. (BOOK RECOMMENDATION)

 January 26, 2012  Posted by at 12:03 AM Consciousness, Cybernetics, Energy Technology, Future Already Very Pending, Genomics, Human Augmentation, Internet, Kurzweil, Medical Technology, Prosthetics, Pure Science, Robot, Space Technology, Super Computer, Technology, Technology & Art, Technology & Education, Technology & Labor, Technology & Politics, Technology & Travel, Technology & Work, Technology Law, The Beginning is Near, Transhumanism

A Human Soul: Gift from Spooky Father Figure Above, or Just a Complex Recursive Pattern?

Dec 072011
 
A Human Soul: Gift from Spooky Father Figure Above, or Just a Complex Recursive Pattern?

Soul? Electrical Pattern? Are we monumentally arrogant to even wonder if we are anything other than an inevitability of chemistry and physics? [author shrugs] Let’s see what Sebastian Seung, author of “Connectome,” has to say.

 December 7, 2011  Posted by at 12:38 PM AI, Artificial Intelligence, Brain, Consciousness, Medical Technology, Neurology, Technology, Transhuman, Transhumanism

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
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