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12 Emerging Technologies For Voluntary Cyborgs
By Akela Talamasca on July 15, 2009
Science moves forward, and takes with it the human body. Over the centuries humans have adapted to live longer, healthier lives. And as the pace of scientific advancement continues, so with it does our ability to modify and improve ourselves to deal with the changing circumstances of our world. Some of these advancements are necessary for the continuation of life, others are for the specialization and longevity of the human body, while still others are to make us better, faster, and stronger organisms that can achieve the impossible. The following are thirteen advances in science that have taken us from “mere human” to “super human”.
Bionic Vision
Ever wanted night vision? Or double the visual abilities of “perfect”? Well, the bionic eye will be able to help. Currently it’s being developed to help blind people regain vision, but the field of adaptive optics is moving closer and closer to perfecting night vision and helping those with perfect vision go even farther. So, completely blind or with perfect sight, the bionic eye can help you see beyond the capacities of any normal human.
The C-Leg
The C-Leg is a military grade prosthetic limb with an intelligent system that measure’s your gait 50 times per second for real time adjustments. One of the strongest and most advanced prosthetic limbs in the world, it is the U.S. military’s choice for a prosthetic leg for its soldiers. Made primarily from titanium, this leg gives you more strength and durability than any human leg could. If you’re not in the military, it will set you back $30,000 to $40,000 though.
The XOS Exoskeleton
If you ever saw “Iron Man”, you probably said exactly the same thing everyone else did; “Where can I get one of those?!” From Raytheon Company of course. The XOS Exoskeleton can be put on like an overcoat, but once on the wearer can easily lift 200 lbs. with one arm. 500 times in a row. Without breaking a sweat. Minus the ability to fly and the lack of weapons attached, this is the “Iron Man” suit.
The Rocket Belt
Since the 1960’s, various forms of jet packs and rocket belts have been successfully tested and used. If you have $125,000 lying around, you can own your own rocket belt and fly for up to 30 seconds at a time. Or you can spring for the more advanced T-73 Jet pack and fly for a full nine minutes, and up to 11 miles. At the very least, you can have one hell of a morning commute.
The Bionic Ear
Currently the most advanced bionic ear system involves an implant, software, a processor, and a wearable earpiece. The system allows you to hear the world more accurately and gives you much better audio acuity than any human ear can offer. It’s used with the hearing impaired to improve hearing, and can be used to increase general hearing with a healthy ear.
The Bullet Stopping T-Shirt
Lightweight, comfortable, but definitely not cotton. This brand new nano-technology involves spinning a fabric constructed out of carbon nanotubes. It’s seventeen times tougher than Kevlar and four times tougher than spider’s silk (which is five times tougher than steel). The bullet may still leave a mark, but rest assured, the bruise will fade.
Cybernetics
How about controlling a machine with your mind that reacts faster than your body possibly could? Or watching a monkey control a robot walking on a treadmill with its mind halfway across the world? One of these has already happened, and the other is quickly approaching. The ability to control a machine with your mind is one that’s created villains and fueled fantasies. Cybernetics research is quickly evolving to the point where, “if you can dream it, you can do it” isn’t just for Disney anymore.
Neural Implants
Neurotechnology is an emerging field that implants a device into your brain, allowing you to control an external device through thinking. Currently a quadriplegic man with one of these devices can control a machine the size of a room with only his mind. So, depending on the device you’re controlling, “superhuman” is a bit of an understatement.
Regeneration
The Holy Grail, or “Cup of Life” has been a quest of many, and obsession of few, and become a possibility with modern technology. Scientists are currently developing methods of regenerating limbs, organs, and body systems with the help of stem cells and current natural technologies found in other organisms. Because who wouldn’t want a fresh heart when they’re sixty.
Mind Reading
Ever wanted to know what someone was thing, or tell if they were lying? Well, now you can. At least, you can if you’re a scientist with a neural imager. By measuring a variety of neural activities, scientists have begun to read people spatial memories. If they can tell where you are (or have been), it’s just a matter of time until you can hold a device up to someone and know if he/she is, in fact, just not that into you.
Teleporting
“Beam me up, Scotty” isn’t just a famous line from television and the movies, it’s the idea of teleporting someone instantly from one place to another. Any who wouldn’t want that? You could go anywhere, anytime, at a moments notice. While science hasn’t gotten quite to that point, scientists are exploring the real possibility of teleporting matter beyond atoms (which has been done, incidentally) between locations. So if you can’t send yourself somewhere, maybe at the very least you could send a camera, or a monkey.
Breathe Underwater
If you’re a diver, you know how arduous a process it is to go diving. You must make sure all your gear is ready, re-check everything, and have a very short time while underwater because of the small amount of oxygen you can take. Now at least, time is no object. With the creation of an underwater breathing vest that filters oxygen out of the water around you, feel free to stay underwater as long as you want.
By Akela Talamasca on July 15, 2009
Science moves forward, and takes with it the human body. Over the centuries humans have adapted to live longer, healthier lives. And as the pace of scientific advancement continues, so with it does our ability to modify and improve ourselves to deal with the changing circumstances of our world. Some of these advancements are necessary for the continuation of life, others are for the specialization and longevity of the human body, while still others are to make us better, faster, and stronger organisms that can achieve the impossible. The following are thirteen advances in science that have taken us from “mere human” to “super human”.
Bionic Vision
Ever wanted night vision? Or double the visual abilities of “perfect”? Well, the bionic eye will be able to help. Currently it’s being developed to help blind people regain vision, but the field of adaptive optics is moving closer and closer to perfecting night vision and helping those with perfect vision go even farther. So, completely blind or with perfect sight, the bionic eye can help you see beyond the capacities of any normal human.
The C-Leg
The C-Leg is a military grade prosthetic limb with an intelligent system that measure’s your gait 50 times per second for real time adjustments. One of the strongest and most advanced prosthetic limbs in the world, it is the U.S. military’s choice for a prosthetic leg for its soldiers. Made primarily from titanium, this leg gives you more strength and durability than any human leg could. If you’re not in the military, it will set you back $30,000 to $40,000 though.
The XOS Exoskeleton
If you ever saw “Iron Man”, you probably said exactly the same thing everyone else did; “Where can I get one of those?!” From Raytheon Company of course. The XOS Exoskeleton can be put on like an overcoat, but once on the wearer can easily lift 200 lbs. with one arm. 500 times in a row. Without breaking a sweat. Minus the ability to fly and the lack of weapons attached, this is the “Iron Man” suit.
The Rocket Belt
Since the 1960’s, various forms of jet packs and rocket belts have been successfully tested and used. If you have $125,000 lying around, you can own your own rocket belt and fly for up to 30 seconds at a time. Or you can spring for the more advanced T-73 Jet pack and fly for a full nine minutes, and up to 11 miles. At the very least, you can have one hell of a morning commute.
The Bionic Ear
Currently the most advanced bionic ear system involves an implant, software, a processor, and a wearable earpiece. The system allows you to hear the world more accurately and gives you much better audio acuity than any human ear can offer. It’s used with the hearing impaired to improve hearing, and can be used to increase general hearing with a healthy ear.
The Bullet Stopping T-Shirt
Lightweight, comfortable, but definitely not cotton. This brand new nano-technology involves spinning a fabric constructed out of carbon nanotubes. It’s seventeen times tougher than Kevlar and four times tougher than spider’s silk (which is five times tougher than steel). The bullet may still leave a mark, but rest assured, the bruise will fade.
Cybernetics
How about controlling a machine with your mind that reacts faster than your body possibly could? Or watching a monkey control a robot walking on a treadmill with its mind halfway across the world? One of these has already happened, and the other is quickly approaching. The ability to control a machine with your mind is one that’s created villains and fueled fantasies. Cybernetics research is quickly evolving to the point where, “if you can dream it, you can do it” isn’t just for Disney anymore.
Neural Implants
Neurotechnology is an emerging field that implants a device into your brain, allowing you to control an external device through thinking. Currently a quadriplegic man with one of these devices can control a machine the size of a room with only his mind. So, depending on the device you’re controlling, “superhuman” is a bit of an understatement.
Regeneration
The Holy Grail, or “Cup of Life” has been a quest of many, and obsession of few, and become a possibility with modern technology. Scientists are currently developing methods of regenerating limbs, organs, and body systems with the help of stem cells and current natural technologies found in other organisms. Because who wouldn’t want a fresh heart when they’re sixty.
Mind Reading
Ever wanted to know what someone was thing, or tell if they were lying? Well, now you can. At least, you can if you’re a scientist with a neural imager. By measuring a variety of neural activities, scientists have begun to read people spatial memories. If they can tell where you are (or have been), it’s just a matter of time until you can hold a device up to someone and know if he/she is, in fact, just not that into you.
Teleporting
“Beam me up, Scotty” isn’t just a famous line from television and the movies, it’s the idea of teleporting someone instantly from one place to another. Any who wouldn’t want that? You could go anywhere, anytime, at a moments notice. While science hasn’t gotten quite to that point, scientists are exploring the real possibility of teleporting matter beyond atoms (which has been done, incidentally) between locations. So if you can’t send yourself somewhere, maybe at the very least you could send a camera, or a monkey.
Breathe Underwater
If you’re a diver, you know how arduous a process it is to go diving. You must make sure all your gear is ready, re-check everything, and have a very short time while underwater because of the small amount of oxygen you can take. Now at least, time is no object. With the creation of an underwater breathing vest that filters oxygen out of the water around you, feel free to stay underwater as long as you want.
Researcher says white folks are fleeing MySpace for Facebook
By Lauren Gard of SF Weekly
Last week, a study showing that older folks have flocked to Facebook was all over the news. But word of an even more provocative trend waits in the wings: white flight from MySpace to Facebook.
That's according to self-styled social media pundit Danah Boyd, who earned a Ph.D. from UC Berkeley's School of Information in 2008. After four years of quizzing teenagers across the country, she contends that white kids are more likely than their nonwhite counterparts to abandon MySpace for its rival, or to choose Facebook in the first place. MySpace has become the "'ghetto' of the digital landscape," she said in a talk at the recent annual conference of the Personal Democracy Forum, an organization that explores how technology influences politics.
She compared the exodus of whites from MySpace to Facebook to the exodus of white city-dwellers to the suburbs over the past 50 years. As Boyd (who is white, by the way) put it, "Many of us have habitually crossed the street to avoid what is seen as the riff-raff."
"MySpace is a little ghetto, a little wilder, a lot more diverse in terms of my interactions with people of different backgrounds," concurs Jonell Stooksberry, a 36-year-old white Bay Area legal assistant who still checks her MySpace account every month but scratches her newer Facebook itch daily. She prefers the user-friendly layout of the latter, and has reconnected with far more friends there than on MySpace. But Stooksberry kind of misses the "ghetto." Back in her MySpace days, she was often contacted by guys she didn't know in hopes of connecting — and they were rarely white.
Sunset resident Kellye Denton says she stopped using her MySpace account in 2008 when the other volunteers she met during a Peace Corps stint in Morocco encouraged her to join Facebook, which they all belonged to. In the year since, she's witnessed most of her other friends — who, she says, come from a variety of ethnic backgrounds — follow suit. She'd never thought about her leap as a social statement at all, and she'd never been all that big on MySpace to begin with.
"MySpace was just a little too much for me, a little too cluttered," she says. "There was too much going on. And Facebook was newer, which was a draw."
San Francisco–based social media consultant Adrian Chan questions whether there are other explanations for Boyd's findings. "I'm uncomfortable with class arguments," he says. "It could just be a matter of teenage style, that kids start with MySpace and when they go off to school, Facebook is what they move to."
Boyd said she didn't have time to comment for this story. We did notice, though, that she has 250 more friends on her Facebook account than on her MySpace account.
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