An Interview With the Worlds First Cyborg

Professor Kevin Warwick became the world's first cyborg twelve years ago.
(The image above is not the worlds first cyborg)


http://gizmodo.com/5610432/watch-an-interview-with-the-worlds-first-cyborg

I found this clip intersting and believe it relates to the idea of post-humanism and other things we discussed in tutorial this week.
I think this is realistic in terms of post-humanism as he is simply turning on a light. I think that the more people research and development into these new technologies the more robotic and post-human we could become. I think this is pretty scary to think about.
I found some points in Kingsley Dennis's article interesting.
It is interesting to think about being able to see people's thoughts when going through airports. I think this would be very dangerous as I am sure many people would also think... I am sure people have had bad thoughts when going through aiports although they might not have bad intentions or plan to do anything.
I see how this could prevent terroism as you would be able to catch the people who plan to do things although you need to be able to differentiate between bad intentions and an active imagination.





I think if they could develop a way to filter through and establish who is going to be a threat then this would be awesome. Otherwise I think this would be ridiculous as they would be catching heaps of people for simply thinking about terroism.
It would be handy as you could also scan through and see who has drugs or is carrying illegitimate items.


Gemma Ward