Tag Archives: Transhumanism

Machine over man Extending our sphere of knowledge by using machines as tools is a grand idea…as long as we’re on the winning side. But are we truly still in command of our intelligent machine creations? If the answer to this is “no,” we may find that we have a …

I was asked to write a short paper for Tech Talks on Humans vs Machines.  It has been published on August 30th and I’ll post it here with some comments as a corollary to the series of posts I wrote in the last month on transhumanism. Enjoy! The rise of …

Following on the previous posts on the potential implication of increasing human thought capabilities, issues that will be examined by Derrick de Kerckhove in his keynote at the Symbiotic Autonomous Systems Workshop on October 30th in San Diego in conjunction with TTM 2018.  Make a point to be there and participate …

In this second round of posts on Transhumanism, stimulated both by reading the Frost&Sullivan report on Transhumanism and by the preparation of the second White Paper on Symbiotic Autonomous Systems I have addressed the possibilities of increasing human thought capabilities. Clearly I expressed very personal opinions on the feasibility of …

Using the brain as a co-processor  As soon as we started having computers researchers tried to connect them together to leverage on the possibility of harvesting more processing power. Internet is the result of this idea: connecting computers (with their processing and data) in a seamless web that can be …

Improving communications with the brain It is now close to 50 years that we have the idea of a Brain Computer Interface that could allow a communications between them. From the idea born in the seventies (as a technical concept to be investigated) huge steps forward have been made, particularly …

In a world, and Society, that is becoming more and more connected we may expect an evolution of what is meant, and was meant, with “thinking”, a characteristics that humans have along with other species but that in humans is so important to influence the behaviour of the individual and …

Life without disease In the last century health care made incredible progresses. Purified water and better food take the lion share in this progress, although they are often underestimated. Drugs, surgery (enabled by anesthesia), antibiotics and more recently anti-immune therapy have fought diseases that were killing millions of people. On …

Enhanced strength We have learnt to enhance our strength centuries, millennia, ago first with lever then harvesting hydraulic and then steam power. Today we have a tremendous array of machines that multiply ur strength. Our body strength has also improved since our ancestors, we have grown taller (10 cm in …

4. Digital biometrics How many passwords do you have? How tough is it to remember them? And yet you never need to identify yourself when you meet a friend, even when you meet him again after 10 years! Connectivity of our body with the cyberspace will be a given in …