RT @icracnet: military spending millions to make cyborgs a reality @CNNPolitics
RT @aannggeellll: Forgot to charge arm last Charging at cellphone charge area at airport
RT @aannggeellll: Forgot to charge arm last Charging at cellphone charge area at airport
@arnold “Now you have machines telling you where to
It's Arnold Schwarzenegger, the actor and former California governor, who is lending his persona as the famed Terminator from the movie franchise to the community-based traffic and navigation app Waze.
RT @al_lad: Pentagon study: let’s build Skynet, cyborgs and Oh and global data surveillance @NafeezAhmed
Pentagon officials are worried that the US military is losing its edge compared to competitors like China, and are willing to explore almost anything to stay on top—including creating watered-down versions of the Terminator.
RT @PeterAsaro: Forget Here’s a beetle whose flight you can remote-control
Today, in a paper in a the journal Current Biology, scientists are describing just that. After strapping tiny computers to the backs of giant flower beetles, they were able to control their flight path, essentially turning them into biological drones.
Anderson, sci-fi author, accidental prophet and nice guy
Don’t forget that the online information sphere is just as much designed to conceal information as it is to reveal it. It’s designed to cocoon us. Don’t let yourself get duped. Fight to understand how your world really works.
“By 2025, everyone will expect to be tracked and monitored”
Hal Varian, chief economist for Google: “By 2025, the current debate about privacy will seem quaint and old-fashioned. The benefits of cloud-based, personal, digital assistants will be so overwhelming that putting restrictions on these services will be out of the question. Of course, there will be people who choose not to use such services, but they will be a small minority. Everyone will expect to be tracked and monitored, since the advantages, in terms of convenience, safety, and services, will be so great.”
Le mythe de l’humain augmenté
Cette surmédiatisation du concept de cyborg va jusqu’à engendrer une mise en question passionnée de l’appareillage, domaine où la raison devrait nous guider : qui oserait lancer un débat «pour ou contre» la chaise roulante ou la canne anglaise ? Le sujet amputé, plus ou moins «réparé», se retrouve involontairement enjeu de discussions sur l’«augmentation» du corps dont il connaît, lui, les limites, au risque de rendre encore plus compliquée l’image qu’il a de lui-même et que la société se fait de lui.
RT @stopthecyborgs: Transhumanists rejoice post human super intelligences They are called
RT @stopthecyborgs: Transhumanists rejoice post human super intelligences They are called