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.

1. The Dawn of the Cyborgs
“We Know What We Are, But We Don’t
Know What We Can Become”
(William Shakespeare)

2. Artificial Biology
Genetics Engineering Biological Brain
Biology Interaction Interaction

3. Biological Interaction

4. Bionic Arm (2005)

5. Bionic Arm (2008)

6. Bionic Arm (2010)

7. Bionic Eyes (2005)

8. Bionic Eyes (2008)

9. Interacting with the Brain

10. EEG Based Interface (Emotive)

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)