Many prominent people in the tech industry have talked about the increasing convergence between humans and machines in the coming…
Browsing: transhumanism
Most species are transitory. They go extinct, branch into new species or change over time due to random mutations and…
Modern transhumanism is the belief that, in the future, science and technology will enable us to transcend our bodily confines. Scientific advances…
The field of brain-machine interfaces (BMI) – which use electrodes, often implanted into the brain, to translate neuronal information into commands capable of controlling external systems such as a computer or robotic arm – have actually been around for some time. Entrepreneur Elon Musk’s company, Neuralink, is aiming to test their BMI systems on a human patient by the end of 2020.
Last year, a consortium of unidentified individuals launched Virternity with the stated goal of a digital life for all. A world that would be owned not by any government but by the people. This digital world, Virternity said, would remove the physical constraints upon us and the planet and usher in a completely new plane of existence. Then, without any warning, Virternity disappeared.
For most people, five senses are enough. But a growing number of a transhumanists are using technology to expand the…
Neuralink – which is “developing ultra high bandwidth brain-machine interfaces to connect humans and computers” – is probably a bad…
The Fourth Industrial Revolution has arrived. The first was the steam engine-driven Industrial Revolution; the second involved the innovations from…
Just as ancient Greeks fantasized about soaring flight, today’s imaginations dream of melding mind and machine as a remedy to…
Computers and brains already talk to each other daily in high-tech labs – and they do it better and better.…