Kevin Warwick: A Practical Guide to Human Enhancement (video)

Here’s the vernacular video recording of Kevin Warwick‘s recent presentation at the recent UK H+ conference; A Practical Guide to Human Enhancement:

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Incidental Media vs Invasive Advertising

As the information we’re leaving and using on the internet leaks out into the world, there’s many ways it can do so.

A subtle approach, making it an ambient part of the background, popping up on…

Incidental Media vs Invasive Advertising

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hitRECordJoe: The Social Network & My Generation an open letter to my friend Peter…

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The Social Network & My Generation
an open letter to my friend Peter Travers

Peter,

Hey man! So, I finally watched The Social Network the other night, and today I read your review of it, curious about your claim that this film defines my generation. First let me say, I agree that…

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German engineers create the most robust robotic hand yet

We’re seriously entering into “chop my weak flesh off and give me that” territory here.

From IEEE Spectrum:

German researchers have built an anthropomorphic robot hand that can endure…

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Organic semiconductor materials look key to creating retinal prosthetics

From New Scientist:

Light-sensitive plastic might be key to repairing damaged retinas. Creating neuro-prosthetic devices such as retinal implants is tricky because biological tissue doesn’t…

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mercurial/fond: Truth and reality are questions for a hundred years ago. I think as a…

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Truth and reality are questions for a hundred years ago. I think as a post-information society, we’ve moved past that. Truth is no longer what is important to us. Just look at our news channels/overall pop culture. Information is what’s important to us. Mass consumption of as many narratives as…

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We see things differently

We’re 11 days into 2011 and I’m watching the north of my country drown on live-television, as they in turn switch between exhausted officals giving press conferences, to reports straight from…

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A Biopunk Manifesto

This is the full text of A Biopunk Manifesto (an update of A Cypherpunk’s Manifesto), as delivered by Meredith Patterson at the UCLA Outlaw Biology Symposium, January 29th-30th, 2010.

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Arduino: The Documentary

This 30min documentary covers not just the origin of the Arduino, but how it’s helped create the MakerBot (which is getting a lot of attention at CES) and other interesting designs in…

Arduino: The Documentary

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