This week’s tech news was off course Honda’s demonstration of its mind controlled robot. A man with a helmet imagining crude movements and the robot ASIMO executing them, not yet flawlessly so it seems, but close enough for this to represent a veritable technological breakthrough.
It has been a couple of years since the scientist Miguel Nicolelis astonished this blogger with his experiments in brain-machine-interfaces. Mr Nicolelis implanted electrodes in to an owl monkey’s brain, interpreted and digitalized the outgoing signals and lo and behold, the monkey learned to move a mechanic arm with his thoughts alone.
No longer was the monkey bound to his biological body. The implications of such a discovery are truly transformational.
What the Japanese have accomplished is so astounding, because it promises the same power Nicolelis gave his owl monkeys without the inconvenience of having a bunch of wires protruding from your skull.
What times we live in.
The Cyborg
Friday, April 3, 2009
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
Power Plastic
Check the article about a new product that will change the way we use solar energy. Just go to my gadget watch page.
The Cyborg.
P.S. Do you want to tell about a technological innovation that is going to change our lives? Leave a comment.
The Cyborg.
P.S. Do you want to tell about a technological innovation that is going to change our lives? Leave a comment.
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
The Aha-moment
We live in the most exiting of times. The current and mind boggling developments in science and technology will transform us and the world around us so profoundly, that we cannot yet hope to imagine the end result.
This realization, the realization of profound and inevitable change, first came to me in 2002 when I was discussing technological innovations with a friend. I remember telling him that we were not far away from creating cyborgs by integrating engineered machines and computers to our own bodies. Incredously, he asked me to put a timeframe to my prediction.
So we googled “cyborg” right then and there and to our astonishment we realised that we were discussing something that had already happened. My mind raced as we read about professor Kevin Warwick of the university of Reading, who by 2002 had already integrated a computer chip to his nervous system. The cyborgs were already among us.
That was my aha-moment. The instant I saw we were in a whirlwind of change. Off course I had always perceived the power of technology to change us, but only now did I realize the scope and the pace of these developments in our lifetime.
Since you are on such a niched website, chances are you also had your aha-moment. if not, you will have it very soon. Take my word for it.
In the 21st century Human kind has entered its pupa stage. There is no stopping the metamorphosis. The only question is: Will we emerge a peaceful butterfly or a voracious dragonfly?
The Cyborg
P.S. Tell me about your Aha-moment, leave a comment
This realization, the realization of profound and inevitable change, first came to me in 2002 when I was discussing technological innovations with a friend. I remember telling him that we were not far away from creating cyborgs by integrating engineered machines and computers to our own bodies. Incredously, he asked me to put a timeframe to my prediction.
So we googled “cyborg” right then and there and to our astonishment we realised that we were discussing something that had already happened. My mind raced as we read about professor Kevin Warwick of the university of Reading, who by 2002 had already integrated a computer chip to his nervous system. The cyborgs were already among us.
That was my aha-moment. The instant I saw we were in a whirlwind of change. Off course I had always perceived the power of technology to change us, but only now did I realize the scope and the pace of these developments in our lifetime.
Since you are on such a niched website, chances are you also had your aha-moment. if not, you will have it very soon. Take my word for it.
In the 21st century Human kind has entered its pupa stage. There is no stopping the metamorphosis. The only question is: Will we emerge a peaceful butterfly or a voracious dragonfly?
The Cyborg
P.S. Tell me about your Aha-moment, leave a comment
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