Subject: [IFETS-Discuss] Technology's role & Cyborgs 1.0
tripathi@statistik.uni-dortmund.de
Date: Sun 21 May 2000 - 00:50:37 MEST
From: tripathi@statistik.uni-dortmund.de Subject: [IFETS-Discuss] Technology's role & Cyborgs 1.0 Date: Sat, 20 May 2000 15:50:37 -0700
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Greetings IFETS Campus,
I am sorry, actually the below thoughts, have been expressed by Prof.
Betz, not by Prof. Cooper...anyway..
> Alan Cooper wrote: (the below thoughts, expressed by Prof. Betz)
> >> Regarding Mr. Abeles statement above I would like to add the
> following observation. I personally have not seen technology
> interfacing directly with humans except to assist disabled or
> disadvantaged people....
Yes, I am agree with Prof. Betz on his concerns, there are many examples
on this issues..in one of GLEF publications, EduTopia!
On Mon, 8 May 2000, Charles Nelson wrote the below--
> Read "Cyborg 1.0" in the February 2000 issue of
> <underline>Wired</underline> where Kevin Warwick, who has a research
> team of 20 scientists, implanted a chip in his arm for transmitting
> information. He says in 18 months he plans an implant, perhaps in the
> spinal cord or optic nerve, for transmitting information between his
> brain and a computer. Warwick says:
>
> "I was born human. But this was an accident of fate - a condition
> merely of time and place. I believe it's something we have the power to
> change."
On the contrary..
And, this also an issues (an eye-opening), to be pursued by team of
cybernetics scholars and scientists! Actually, why Kevin Warwick has
implanted a silicon chip on his arm? The aim of doing this experiment
was to determine, whether information could be transmitted to and from
an implant, and the main question to be answered, How the principles
behind cybernetics could perform in real-life applications? The main
aim of these experiment, is also considering the issues of "power of
transmitting and receiving specific complex sensory signals".
Nonetheless, Prof. Kevin Warwick has also pursued the issues of helping
and supporting the people with disabilities by expressing the concerns,
"..The potentials for medical breakthroughs in existing disabilities is
phenomenally important. Might it be possible to add an extra route for
more senses or to provide alternative pathways for blind or deaf people to
*see* or *hear* with Ultrasonic and Infrared wavelengths? Perhaps a blind
person could navigate around objects with ultrasonic radar, much the ways
bats do. Robots have been programming to perform this action already, and
neuroscientists have not dismissed the ideas of humans.."
His research team is also venturing into the UNKNOWN, in order to bring
humans and technology together in a way that has never been attempted,
before. Envisioning the future, when we send signals so that we do not
have to speak!
More later on these issues!
Thanking you!
Sincerely
Arun Tripathi
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