IPv6 is a great leap forward. But something tells me that even a 39-digit number might eventually seem as quaint as 4.3 billion does now. I mean come on, let’s be realistic – nanobots are going to need IP addresses, too.
Jan 232012
Nov 242011
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
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
Oct 292011
Actually, I give props to MS for producing these videos. The whole chicken/egg life-imitating-art and the inverse thereof motivation factor inherent in SCI-FI should never be dismissed.
October 29, 2011
AI, Artificial Intelligence, Cybernetics, Future Already Very Pending, Microsoft, Technology, Technology & Work, Telepresence, The Beginning is Near
Oct 272011
Whether you think The Singularity is near or far, agree or disagree, have weird religious fervor for or against it, or aren’t interested at all, you’d be foolish not to pay attention to who’s paying attention to the concept.
October 27, 2011
AI, Artificial Intelligence, Brain, Cybernetics, Future Already Very Pending, Human Augmentation, Kurzweil, NBI, Neurology, Robot, Singularity, Technology, The Beginning is Near, Transhuman, Transhumanism
Oct 212011
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?
Sep 272011
In the context of our perception of linear time, the march toward radically upgrading the human experience is not a “switch-on” process, it’s not sudden, it’s not merely a download away. It’s an ongoing-for-quite-a-while-now, subtle, and steadily accelerating merger.
Sep 212011
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?