Cyborgs and cybernetics - for iPad/Mac/PC
by The Open University
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Description
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 humanity. The interfaces that communicate between man and machine are developing rapidly and to Prof. Kevin Warwick at Reading University, cyborgs are a technological evolutionary step forward from humans. With increasingly intelligent robots and nano-technologies, can man keep up with the machines? This material forms part of the Open University course T209 Information and communication technologies: people and interactions.
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Cyborgs and cybernetics | A short introduction to this album. | 2/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 2 | Transcript -- Cyborgs and cybernetics | Transcript -- A short introduction to this album. | 2/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 3 | VideoWhat are cyborgs? | Understanding cyborgs: Dr Manfred Clynes and Prof Kevin Warwick explain the fusion between technology and humanity. | 4/24/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 4 | Transcript -- What are cyborgs? | Transcript -- Understanding cyborgs: Dr Manfred Clynes and Prof Kevin Warwick explain the fusion between technology and humanity. | 4/24/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 5 | VideoCyclists as cyborgs | How Prof Tim Perkins uses cybernetics to create an interface which allows paraplegic people to use their limbs again. | 4/24/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 6 | Transcript -- Cyclists as cyborgs | Transcript -- How Prof Tim Perkins uses cybernetics to create an interface which allows paraplegic people to use their limbs again. | 4/24/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 7 | VideoCyborgs have feelings | Kevin and Irena Warwick: the ultimate interface - communicating human feeling and emotion over the internet. | 4/24/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 8 | Transcript -- Cyborgs have feelings | Transcript -- Kevin and Irena Warwick: the ultimate interface - communicating human feeling and emotion over the internet. | 4/24/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 9 | VideoIntelligent robots | Intelligent robots learn. Prof Kevin Warwick imagines a cyborg future where humans are a sub-species. | 4/24/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 10 | Transcript -- Intelligent robots | Transcript -- Intelligent robots learn. Prof Kevin Warwick imagines a cyborg future where humans are a sub-species. | 4/24/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 11 | VideoDownloading your soul | Endless memory: Ian Pearson of BT Technologies describes the possibility of downloading the entire contents of your mind onto a computer. | 4/24/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 12 | Transcript -- Downloading your soul | Transcript -- Endless memory: Ian Pearson of BT Technologies describes the possibility of downloading the entire contents of your mind onto a computer. | 4/24/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 12 Episodes |
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