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.
Jan 102012
Dec 152011
There are some things to which we’re all too connected – I’ll certainly admit that. But splashing out some junk science conjecture to broadly condemn the immensely powerful forces of social technology is just weak sauce.
December 15, 2011
Aging Society, Facebook, Here First or Best Here, Human Augmentation, Internet, Neurology, Prosthetics, Technology, Technology & Politics, Twitter
Dec 072011
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
AI, Artificial Intelligence, Brain, Consciousness, Medical Technology, Neurology, Technology, Transhuman, Transhumanism
Nov 252011
Contact lens with high-res capability could theoretically replace almost every screen we look at on a day-to-day basis. And totally molest our notions of reality, existence, and whether blue is really blue. What is “blue,” anyway?
Nov 032011
With sophisticated enough models, I suppose we could wake up and review that moment of unconscious inspiration we can only vaguely recall by mid-morning. And put it up on YouTube.
November 3, 2011
AI, Artificial Intelligence, Audio Posts, Brain, Consciousness, Future Already Very Pending, Here First or Best Here, Neurology, Technology
Oct 172011
Perhaps unconsciously, Allen is asserting the primacy of human intelligence in our known universe – a cognitive barrier beyond which nothing can pass – because evolution made it… or something. Paul, an AI doesn’t have to be smart LIKE us, just as smart AS us. Namsayen?
October 17, 2011
AI, Artificial Intelligence, Brain, Consciousness, Future Already Very Pending, Here First or Best Here, Microsoft, NBI, Neurology, Singularity, Technology
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?