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Mind uploading, i.e. the possibility to transfer all memories, thoughts and feelings from a person’s brain to a computer, has been the realm of science fiction[1]till few years ago. The development of technologies that allow the monitoring of the brain as it “works” have moved the field from science fiction …

As of Spring 2018 the fastest computer is the Sunway Taihulight, Wuxi – China. It has 10,649,600 processing cores, clustered in group of 260 each and delivering an overall performance of 125.44 PetaFLOPS (million of billions of instructions per second) requiring some 20MW of power. In the US the National …

In 2016 DARPA announced a program aiming at creating technologies to capture the brain’s activity at high resolution, meaning that one could look at activities of single neurones. The first target is to “read” up to a million neurones in parallel and researchers are confident that will be achieved at …

In the Symbiotic Autonomous Systems Initiative we are looking at human augmentation technologies, including the ones that are at an early experimental stage but might become impactful in the coming decades. Among these we are looking at development in brain to computer interactions, digital twins, artificial intelligence and distributed / …

We are still in the dark when it comes to really understand what goes on in our brain that results in perception, awareness … Yes we have learnt and understood several basic circuitry but the formation of thoughts and conscience still eludes us. The progress has been made by observing …

Let’s look now at the last area considered by the Imperial College Foresight study with expected impact in 2040: Human Machine interactions. Here they are pointing to three technologies:  Implantable phones, Conversational machine interfaces and  Thought control machine interfaces where the order is based on my view of likely-hood. Implantable phones …

Transhuman technologies III In this last segment on human augmentation I am touching upon the most profound changes that mark a departure from our species, hence the once that are most fraught with ethical issues. altering We all belong to the human species because our DNA is the one characterising …

Transhuman technologies II embellishing Cosmetics seem to go as far back in time as we can tell. Some peoples traditionally modify their bodies, sometimes embedding natural objects (like shells in African tribal piercing) or artefacts (like jewels). Cosmetics have become quite sophisticated, leveraging on advanced technologies like carbon nanotubes and …

Transhuman technologies I Human augmentation is a continuous process that has accelerated in the last decade and that is foreseen to accelerate even further in the coming decades with seamless integration of technologies that increase human capabilities and with technologies that modify the genome. Transhuman technologies can be clustered in …

Data upload to the brain (and from the brain) The Imperial College Foresight study includes Data upload to the brain as a disruptive technology that might happen in the 2040 timeframe. This is part of a more general evolution seeing the mirroring of a person, and a person brain, in …