lots of “cyberbonic” in the news
Over the last several weeks there have been a number of articles focusing on new “cyberbonic” (my word for it) techologies:
- A robotic suit controlled by electrical signals detected on the skin by sensors
- a non-acoustic sensor that detects speech without sound by picking up the changes in capacitance in the vocal cords
- bionic eyes that will allow the blind to see
R&D into technology used to remove people’s limitations or give new capabilities really seems to be picking up steam, and I believe this is the future of technology. Technology is being “personalized”, meaning that it is becoming an integral part of the normal functioning of people’s bodies. Over the coming decades, I see the development of a “cyberbonic system” (system in the sense of the cardiovascular or nervous system), where technology and humanity are more tightly integrated, so that we can fully reap the benefits or machines and computing. These are some of the first steps toward that realizatoin.