This is the story of how biology and technology will combine to create a new kind of human.
Link to Video
The remaining parts are available at YouTube.
Major topics:
- Ray Kurzwiel - the 2029 singularity.
- John Chapin - remote controlled rats.
- Miguel Nicolelis - implanted electrodes into monkey’s brains to allow them to control robotic arms using their thoughts.
- Philip Kennedy - Eric Ramsey was paralyzed and lost the ability to speak. Kennedy has implanted electrodes into Eric’s brain to allow him to speak thru a computer.
- Hugo de Garis - artilects (artificial intellects), god-like machines.
- Henry Markram - copying a rat’s brain one nueron at a time. His virtual brain is about 1 year away from completion.
- Seth Lloyd - quantum computers.
- Ted Kosinski (unibomber) - the one man revolution against it all.
