You would like to be a cyborg...???
A few days ago I heard a lecture by prof. Kevin Warwick ... "I'm a cyborg"... and on the one hand I was delighted and on the other hand horrified ....Kevin Warwick is one of the leading cybernetics researchers, known primarily for research on the computer-brain interface and artificial intelligence. He carried out several experiments and observations on himself, and the journalists quickly shouted him "the first cyborg" or "Captain Cyborg".
In 1998, Prof. Warwick was the first who implant under the skin a micro-transmitter using RFID (radio-frequency identification) technology. The device made the researcher "recognized" by the electronic equipment in the room and could control even light or heaters. ... He told how he felt in his hand the strength and resistance when on the other side of the world an artificial hand which he was controlling with his own strength of mind he touched and lifted things ... it was amazing ... but on the other hand, when he talked about it..how it will be possible when our thoughts through sensors start to rule our lives, it listens and controls our conversations and tells us what we should do now.. is quite terrifying.. so on the one hand, it's a bit scary and the other the therapeutic promise is an enormous....
So would you like to be a cyborg and be connected to your computer, control things through your thoughts ... but on the other hand, be somehow controlled by a computer which tells you what to do or what you should to do?
I wouldn't want to.. even though it seems to be fun at the beginning but also it seems to me that computers are learning faster than we ..so to some extent it can take a larger part of my personality, and then I won't be me anymore...
A few days ago I heard a lecture by prof. Kevin Warwick ... "I'm a cyborg"... and on the one hand I was delighted and on the other hand horrified ....Kevin Warwick is one of the leading cybernetics researchers, known primarily for research on the computer-brain interface and artificial intelligence. He carried out several experiments and observations on himself, and the journalists quickly shouted him "the first cyborg" or "Captain Cyborg".
In 1998, Prof. Warwick was the first who implant under the skin a micro-transmitter using RFID (radio-frequency identification) technology. The device made the researcher "recognized" by the electronic equipment in the room and could control even light or heaters. ... He told how he felt in his hand the strength and resistance when on the other side of the world an artificial hand which he was controlling with his own strength of mind he touched and lifted things ... it was amazing ... but on the other hand, when he talked about it..how it will be possible when our thoughts through sensors start to rule our lives, it listens and controls our conversations and tells us what we should do now.. is quite terrifying.. so on the one hand, it's a bit scary and the other the therapeutic promise is an enormous....
So would you like to be a cyborg and be connected to your computer, control things through your thoughts ... but on the other hand, be somehow controlled by a computer which tells you what to do or what you should to do?
I wouldn't want to.. even though it seems to be fun at the beginning but also it seems to me that computers are learning faster than we ..so to some extent it can take a larger part of my personality, and then I won't be me anymore...
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“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existence. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery each day."
“I may be on the side of the angels but don’t think for one second that I am one of them.”
“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existence. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery each day."
