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Kevin Warwick on Singularity Podcast: You Have To Take Risks To Be Part Of The Future

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[Audio clip: view full post to listen] Right Click To Download In today’s edition of Singularity Podcast I had the privilege of doing an hour long interview with the first cyborg — Prof. Kevin Warwick. I enjoyed talking to Prof. Warwick immensely and got him to share his views on a wide variety of topics [...]

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Kevin Warwick: The First Cyborg

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This is another cool video of Kevin Warwick (aka the first cyborg). In 2002, under the heading Project Cyborg, a British scientist and university professor, Kevin Warwick, had an array of 100 electrodes fired into his nervous system in order to link it to the internet. Then he successfully carried out a series of experiments [...]

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Kevin Warwick’s Cyborg Experiments

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Kevin Warwick is an internationally renowned Professor and researcher in the field of Cybernetics from the University of Reading, England. His work in the areas of Artificial Intelligence, human control functions, robotics and cybernetic organisms presented here shows how implant and electrode technology can be used to create biological brains for robots, to enable human [...]

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Best of Singularity Blog

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Even though it has been only a bit more than a month since the beginning of this blog I am happy to note that there is already a tight group of people who have subscribed to my feed and continue to come back and read my posts on a regular basis. I want to take [...]

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Dawn of the Kill-Bots: the Conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan and the Arming of AI (part 5)

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Part 5: The Future of (Military) AI — Singularity While being certainly dangerous for humans, especially the ones that are specifically targeted by the kill-bots, arming machines is not on its own a process that can threaten the reign of homo sapiens in general. What can though is the fact that it is occurring within [...]

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The Man with a Cyborg Hand

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Scientists hail robotic hand ‘breakthrough’ A group of European scientists have successfully connected a robotic hand to an amputee, allowing him to feel sensations in the artificial limb, and control it by thought. During a month of experiments, the patient made complex movements using only his brain. It is being heralded as a scientific breakthrough. [...]

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An Artificial Heart

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A new artificial heart developed in France could be the future for thousands of cardiac patients. The heart has an artificial skin which reduces the chances of transplant rejection and is expected to be available around 2012. The cyborgs are coming… but just when do we stop to be human and turn into machines?!…

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Smart Contact Lenses and Artificial Retinas

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In the last few years Genetics, Robotics and Nanotechnologies have all become Information Technologies and are often quoted as singularity precursors. Vernor Vinge’s sci fi novel Rainbows End, set in what he calls “a slow take-off” pre-singularity period, describes wearable computers and smart contact lens technology for augmented reality. But is this science fiction? Is [...]

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