This week, a research breakthrough at the University of Washington brings us one step closer to living as cyborgs. Chao Zhong and his colleagues have built a biocompatible solid state device made from the shells of crustaceans tha’s able to monitor and control the flow of protons. Unlike electronic machines that transfer information via electrons, our bodies and brains do it via ions and protons. And that difference between machines and bodies — we’re incompatible technology — has been one challenge to advancing cybernetics.
That’s not the only challenge. Several technologies allow people to control machines with their minds
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OMG MY SOCIOLOGY OF HEALTH AND ILLNESS PROF WAS TALKING ABOUT CYBORGS HUMANS TODAY
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DON’T THESE PEOPLE REALIZE THAT BORGS ARE RUTHLESS KILLERS?! Sweet lord. When will people realize
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Scary stuff. Terminators? Robocops? Borgs? Blade Runner? Pick your apocalypse…
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