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Your Cyborg Future Is Here (Part III)

So this article talks about a guy who’s hooked up a computer to a brain. A moth brain, granted, and at the moment it’s just electrodes attached to the neurons that deal with sight. However, the story tells us that the robot is then able to respond “to what the moth is seeing [...]

Your Cyborg Future is Here (part II)

This YouTube video shows off something very interesting, something I think is the wave of the future; mechanical body parts, moveable via brain waves. The mechanism reads your brain waves, and performs the action, so that (for instance), one can think “go left” when in a game online, or “curl fingers,” and the action [...]

Your Cyborg Future is Here

You Are a Cyborg (from Wired)
…I have nagging worries. Sure, I’m a veritable genius when I’m on the grid, but am I mentally crippled when I’m not? Does an overreliance on machine memory shut down other important ways of understanding the world? …
This guy has a point; I can’t remember my brother’s phone number, [...]

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