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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 human…

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  • Feb 10, 2010 LATEST EPISODE
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Cyborgs and cybernetics

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 10, 2010 1:07


A short introduction to this album.

Transcript -- Cyborgs and cybernetics

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 10, 2010


Transcript -- A short introduction to this album.

What are cyborgs?

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 24, 2008 2:16


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

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Transcript -- What are cyborgs?

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 24, 2008


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

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Cyclists as cyborgs

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 24, 2008 2:21


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

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 24, 2008


Transcript -- 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

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 24, 2008 2:05


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

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Transcript -- Cyborgs have feelings

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 24, 2008


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

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Intelligent robots

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 24, 2008 1:58


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

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Transcript -- Intelligent robots

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 24, 2008


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

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Downloading your soul

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 24, 2008 1:41


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 -- Downloading your soul

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 24, 2008


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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