Cyborgs and cybernetics - for iPad/Mac/PC

Cyborgs and cybernetics - for iPad/Mac/PC

What are cyborgs? Would a cyborg future deliver positive human advances or a Hollywood-style nightmare in which human beings have become a sub-species? Could we one day download our minds? This album gives an insight into the development of cybernetics and how it is used to fuse technology and humanity. The interfaces that communicate between man and machine are developing rapidly and to Prof. Kevin Warwick at Reading University, cyborgs are a technological evolutionary step forward from humans. With increasingly intelligent robots and nano-technologies, can man keep up with the machines? This material forms part of The Open University course T209 Information and communication technologies: people and interactions.

Episodes

February 11, 2010 1 min
A short introduction to this album.
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Transcript -- A short introduction to this album.
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April 24, 2008 2 mins
Understanding cyborgs: Dr Manfred Clynes and Prof Kevin Warwick explain the fusion between technology and humanity.
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April 24, 2008 2 mins
How Prof Tim Perkins uses cybernetics to create an interface which allows paraplegic people to use their limbs again.
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April 24, 2008 2 mins
Kevin and Irena Warwick: the ultimate interface - communicating human feeling and emotion over the internet.
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April 24, 2008 1 min
Intelligent robots learn. Prof Kevin Warwick imagines a cyborg future where humans are a sub-species.
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April 24, 2008 1 min
Endless memory: Ian Pearson of BT Technologies describes the possibility of downloading the entire contents of your mind onto a computer.
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Transcript -- Understanding cyborgs: Dr Manfred Clynes and Prof Kevin Warwick explain the fusion between technology and humanity.
Mark as Played
Transcript -- How Prof Tim Perkins uses cybernetics to create an interface which allows paraplegic people to use their limbs again.
Mark as Played
Transcript -- Kevin and Irena Warwick: the ultimate interface - communicating human feeling and emotion over the internet.
Mark as Played
Transcript -- Intelligent robots learn. Prof Kevin Warwick imagines a cyborg future where humans are a sub-species.
Mark as Played
Transcript -- Endless memory: Ian Pearson of BT Technologies describes the possibility of downloading the entire contents of your mind onto a computer.
Mark as Played

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