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Sometime ago, a man named Kevin Warwick came to give a lecture in Durham University on how he thought cyborgs were going to take over the world. I don't know if you've heard of him, but you've probably seen him. Every time a documentary on AI or robots or whatever gets commissioned, Kevin Warwick goes on TV and explains how he has a chip in his arm that allows him to open doors in his lab... WITHOUT TOUCHING THEM!
Truly, this is the wave of the future.
Anyway, in a rather lengthy and self indulgent lecture, (no less than three TV clips of Kevin 'Davros' Warwick explaining various banalities in a patronising tone) he mentioned how he was getting a new chip that would allow him to share emotions with his wife. This chip monitored physiological changes and then relayed them to the partner chip, which discharged electrical signals into the nerves surrounding it. I have my reservations as to whether this would actually allow the sharing of emotions and not just be like someone sticking a rather low powered and tempermental tazer into your arm.
Kevin did seem adamant that cyborgs would one day become the norm, and that the human race as we know it would disappear. Does anyone agree?
I get the feeling that anything that might require surgery will be catered for externally. Take TVs for instance. Suppose someone said that you could have an implant in your eyes and ears that allowed you to watch, say, episodes of The Rise and Fall of Reginal Perrin without the aid of all that clunky CRT nonsense. Now, if someone said they could do the same thing with a pair of contact lenses, which would you pick? The thing is, surgery is always going to be expensive because you need surgeons, and surgeons like to charge lots of money.
Maybe technology will just develop down lines that ignore surgery. Things might change in The Future- a Surgeonotron would do the trick- but saying that is a bit of a cop-out.
Opinions?
Truly, this is the wave of the future.
Anyway, in a rather lengthy and self indulgent lecture, (no less than three TV clips of Kevin 'Davros' Warwick explaining various banalities in a patronising tone) he mentioned how he was getting a new chip that would allow him to share emotions with his wife. This chip monitored physiological changes and then relayed them to the partner chip, which discharged electrical signals into the nerves surrounding it. I have my reservations as to whether this would actually allow the sharing of emotions and not just be like someone sticking a rather low powered and tempermental tazer into your arm.
Kevin did seem adamant that cyborgs would one day become the norm, and that the human race as we know it would disappear. Does anyone agree?
I get the feeling that anything that might require surgery will be catered for externally. Take TVs for instance. Suppose someone said that you could have an implant in your eyes and ears that allowed you to watch, say, episodes of The Rise and Fall of Reginal Perrin without the aid of all that clunky CRT nonsense. Now, if someone said they could do the same thing with a pair of contact lenses, which would you pick? The thing is, surgery is always going to be expensive because you need surgeons, and surgeons like to charge lots of money.
Maybe technology will just develop down lines that ignore surgery. Things might change in The Future- a Surgeonotron would do the trick- but saying that is a bit of a cop-out.
Opinions?