Podcasts by 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.
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Transcript -- Cyborgs and cybernetics from 2010-02-11T02:45:07
A short introduction to this album.
ListenWhat are cyborgs? from 2008-04-24T21:52:37
Understanding cyborgs: Dr Manfred Clynes and Prof Kevin Warwick explain the fusion between technology and humanity.
ListenTranscript -- What are cyborgs? from 2008-04-24T21:52:36
Understanding cyborgs: Dr Manfred Clynes and Prof Kevin Warwick explain the fusion between technology and humanity.
ListenCyclists as cyborgs from 2008-04-24T21:51:37
How Prof Tim Perkins uses cybernetics to create an interface which allows paraplegic people to use their limbs again.
ListenTranscript -- Cyclists as cyborgs from 2008-04-24T21:51:36
How Prof Tim Perkins uses cybernetics to create an interface which allows paraplegic people to use their limbs again.
ListenCyborgs have feelings from 2008-04-24T21:50:37
Kevin and Irena Warwick: the ultimate interface - communicating human feeling and emotion over the internet.
ListenTranscript -- Cyborgs have feelings from 2008-04-24T21:50:36
Kevin and Irena Warwick: the ultimate interface - communicating human feeling and emotion over the internet.
ListenIntelligent robots from 2008-04-24T21:49:37
Intelligent robots learn. Prof Kevin Warwick imagines a cyborg future where humans are a sub-species.
ListenTranscript -- Intelligent robots from 2008-04-24T21:49:36
Intelligent robots learn. Prof Kevin Warwick imagines a cyborg future where humans are a sub-species.
ListenDownloading your soul from 2008-04-24T21:48:37
Endless memory: Ian Pearson of BT Technologies describes the possibility of downloading the entire contents of your mind onto a computer.
ListenTranscript -- Downloading your soul from 2008-04-24T21:48:36
Transcript -- Endless memory: Ian Pearson of BT Technologies describes the possibility of downloading the entire contents of your mind onto a computer.
ListenTranscript -- Downloading your soul from 2008-04-24T21:48:36
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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