Cyborgs

Picking up where What if… we could all become cyborgs? , a show Andy produced for the BBC World Service, and last week's episode both left off, Andy and Will discuss cyborgs, hive minds, extending the senses, and the alleged emasculating effects of smartphones. Bionic eyes; artificial synæsthesia; lab rats with brain implants sense invisible infrared light ; powering an artificial heart; Google Glass; Sergey Brin: Smartphones are ‘emasculating’ ; Steve Mann (Will mentioned the hit-and-run anecdote in this article but didn't realise it was the same man who was assaulted in McDonald's ); the many strands of Ghost in the Shell; brain hacking; typing with twenty fingers; Nigel Shadbolt and AIs for the elderly; the Borg; the Ood ; Intercontinental mind-meld unites two rats ; Rats ARE like the Borg ; faint memories of a Dark Angel plotline; Lab-grown human brains could control robots, says Kevin Warwick ; aaaaaaand rat kings . Tracklist The Six Million Dollar Man theme Faded Paper Figures – Information Runs On Scott Matthew – Lithium Flower (from the Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex soundtrack) Pet Shop Boys – Always On My Mind Kraftwerk – The Robots Rat King: King Rat by Cle0patra Window Color Sound Sculpture 6 by Dennis Skley Send feedback and comments to show@scienceoffiction.co.uk .

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This episode is 0:59:26 long.

This episode was published on Mar 3, 2013.

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