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Transhuman Week: exploring the frontiers of human enhancement
Wired UK is running a series of of articles this week exploring transhumanism. Here's the topic hub: http://www.wired.co.uk/topics/transhuman-week
Practical transhumanism: five living cyborgs
Implants, brain-computer interface, eyeball camera, USB finger:
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-09/04/cyborgs
Would you swap a healthy eye for a bionic one with additional functionality?
By +Luke Robert Mason (writer and speaker on augmented reality and posthuman possibilities):
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-09/04/seeing-beyond-human-transhumanism
#transhumanism #cyborg #humanityplus
Wired UK is running a series of of articles this week exploring transhumanism. Here's the topic hub: http://www.wired.co.uk/topics/transhuman-week
Practical transhumanism: five living cyborgs
Implants, brain-computer interface, eyeball camera, USB finger:
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-09/04/cyborgs
Would you swap a healthy eye for a bionic one with additional functionality?
By +Luke Robert Mason (writer and speaker on augmented reality and posthuman possibilities):
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-09/04/seeing-beyond-human-transhumanism
#transhumanism #cyborg #humanityplus
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No argument there +Mark Bruce. This all simply feeds into my war on semantics itself I guess ^^. As soon as we start classifying, the rules are bound to change. I have seen postulated latin terms for our next form. Maybe the Google like + is all we actually need though +David Jacobs.Sep 5, 2012
I kind of see a future like the one imagined by Alastair Reynolds in his Revelation Space series of books, where humans are divided up into different sub-species with short descriptive names like 'ultras' who are heavily technologically modified transhumans and 'conjoiners' who are mentally augmented (both by technology and by other means) and essentially develop a hive mind.Sep 6, 2012- The term I have decided fit for a transhuman intermediate is metacogg ^^Sep 6, 2012
Sleep replacement and 3D-printed shapeshifting: a bodyhacker's wish list
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-09/06/dream-body-modSep 6, 2012
The first points:
2013 to 2014
Wireless file storage
Subdermal navigation system
Brain-only control of temperature of my house
I'd definitely opt-in for the first and second and would like to see how the third was implemented before considering it. But number three, for me, could really be extending the boundary of the "self" for the first time with the local home environment linked to your whim and desire.Sep 6, 2012- I thought a lot about that one as well, +Mark Bruce. At first, it would take conscious effort to control the room temperature, but eventually it would likely become second nature and subconscious. In fact, it would probably end up just being an extension of homoeostasis! It could easily be extended to other private domains, such as your car.Sep 6, 2012
