Connecting machines to the human bodies and brains is an amazing science which has provided some unbelievable inventions. In the near future these technologies might have a significant effect on many of us. In this presentation I explore these new technologies and the effect that they might have on humanity.
11. Interacting with the Brain
• Cyborg insects
• Monkeys control
robotic hands using
neurons
• Robots with rat brains
• Recording mice memory
to computer chips
• Brain Implants to treat
Parkinson disease
• Reconstructing visual
images from the brain
2002
12. The Blue Brain Project
• Computer simulation
of the brain
• 10,000 parallel
processors =
1 Millionth of the brain
• Complete set of
software tools
• In 5 years – a
complete mouse brain
• In 20 years (?) – a
complete human brain
13. Cyborgs
• Cyborg =
Cybernetic Organism
• Coined in 1960 by
Manfred Clynes and
Nathan Kline
• Combining man and
machine
• Where do we end
and technology
begins?
Cyborg (Star Trek)
14. Where Is The Border?
Ray Kurzweil Marshall Mcluhan
15. What Does The Future Hold?
• Human Cyborgs
• Real VR
• Extended brain
capabilities
• Instant learning
• Dream manipulation
• Telepathy
• Artificial Intelligence
• Virtual Existence
Cyborg (Star Trek)
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16. Questions?
“If I had only known, I would have
been a locksmith” (Albert Einstein)