Scientists test first human cyborg

CNN.com ^ | 4/27/02 | CNN Staff

[Luis Gonzalez]

OXFORD, England -- A British university professor has been fitted with cyborg technology enabling his nervous system to be linked to a computer.

The ground-breaking surgery on Prof. Kevin Warwick effectively makes him the world's first cyborg -- part human, part machine.

[mhking]

We can rebuild him...

[martin_fierro]

The Cy-Gore-g

[chilepepper]

Resistance is futile. Prepare to be assimilated...

[Rebelbase]

AlGore invented Cyborgs.

[listenhillary]

Hmm... Could I get Free Republic set as the home page on my implant?

[Nick Danger]

These signals, encoding movements like wiggling fingers and feelings like shock and pain, will be transmitted to a computer and recorded for the first time.

This is not good news. That which is recorded can be played back, and it is not that difficult to induce an electrical current in something that is many meters away.

I hate to say it, but a tin-foil hat may not be good enough in coming years. We may need head-to-toe tin-foil body suits.

[Luis Gonzalez]

"We can rebuild him."

That may be easier than re-building his career.

[Luis Gonzalez]

[mhking]

[Luis Gonzalez]

FYI

[Luis Gonzalez]

Yeah, but mine's make-believe.

[mhking]

lol

[green team 1999]

good posting,but old news,if you listen to art bell two interview days ago,you could have saved time,the interview was before and after the operation.
once again art bell ahead of the news.

[green team 1999]

www.kevinwarwick.com

[MarkWar]

>A British university professor has been fitted with cyborg technology enabling his nervous system to be linked to a computer.

Jamie Lee Curtis will save us!

Mark W.

[redheadtoo]

The first human cyborg? Hardly

There are millions of humans that are fitted with mechanical parts. One dear friend of mine has two artificial hips and two artificial knees. Not surprisingly her friends and family call her the six million dollar woman.

[MarkWar]

>There are millions of humans that are fitted with mechanical parts.

That's a good point. The process of coming to see human beings as just fancy mechanical contraptions started long before computers came along. But, typically, the word "cyborg" is keyed to the "cyb-" part, which is short for cybernetic organism, i.e., a control system, a system involving feedback of one or various kinds between the human and the added part(s).

To my eyes, still the very best story (novel, not movie) of such stuff is Crichton's The Terminal Man:

Mark W.

[weikel]

Cool if Cheney's health gets worse he can always be dressed up like this . We'll see how many Arab leaders are willing to defy Darth Cheney bet they'll cooperate with the Iraq attack real quick.

[Greeklawyer]

In the future, you have a chip in you head and
you will be conected to free republic all the time,
where ever you go, whatever you are doing.

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