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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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Cyborgs and cybernetics - for iPad/Mac/PC
Transcript -- Cyborgs and cybernetics from 2010-02-11T02:45:07

A short introduction to this album.

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What are cyborgs? from 2008-04-24T21:52:37

Understanding cyborgs: Dr Manfred Clynes and Prof Kevin Warwick explain the fusion between technology and humanity.

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Transcript -- 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.

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Cyclists 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.

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Transcript -- 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.

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Cyborgs have feelings from 2008-04-24T21:50:37

Kevin and Irena Warwick: the ultimate interface - communicating human feeling and emotion over the internet.

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Cyborgs and cybernetics - for iPad/Mac/PC
Transcript -- Cyborgs have feelings from 2008-04-24T21:50:36

Kevin and Irena Warwick: the ultimate interface - communicating human feeling and emotion over the internet.

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Cyborgs and cybernetics - for iPad/Mac/PC
Intelligent robots from 2008-04-24T21:49:37

Intelligent robots learn. Prof Kevin Warwick imagines a cyborg future where humans are a sub-species.

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Cyborgs and cybernetics - for iPad/Mac/PC
Transcript -- Intelligent robots from 2008-04-24T21:49:36

Intelligent robots learn. Prof Kevin Warwick imagines a cyborg future where humans are a sub-species.

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Cyborgs and cybernetics - for iPad/Mac/PC
Downloading 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.

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Cyborgs and cybernetics - for iPad/Mac/PC
Transcript -- 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.

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Cyborgs and cybernetics - for iPad/Mac/PC
Transcript -- 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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