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Human Augmentation
"We are racing towards a new era in which we outsource cognitive abilities that are central to our identity as thinking beings," writes computer scientist Louis Rosenberg.
"Mainstream computing will start to shift from a race to develop increasingly powerful tools to a race to develop increasingly powerful abilities."
In the international competition, people with physical disabilities put state-of-the-art devices to the test as they race to complete the tasks of everyday life.
Implanting machine components into human bodies, argues one scholar, could make for a better society.
If you guessed “staying up all night to play video games,” you’d be right.
Its creators hope the technology will help people meaningfully connect with the external world.
The brain-computer interface will be tested in a six-year trial in patients with quadriplegia.
They cost $1,400 and will make you feel like you’re always on a moving sidewalk.
Humans are already so integrated with technology that the dream of transhumanism is a reality. Can we handle what comes next?