Week 13 -- Bionics and Our Biophysical Future

• Would you support the development of a “bionic” person? -- I would except that I am sure the military industrial complex would use this for a means for power and control and violence not for peace or to help people. I remember the cartoon 'Bionic 6' which was a family of 6 that had special 'bionic' powers that they used to help the planet. Maybe the bionic person could do things like have super brain power so we could perfect solar technology and super lungs so we could clean the air pollution. That would be really cool.
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• How would you rate “the control of artificial limbs by thought alone”-- This is really cool. being able to decode the brain wave activity and transduce it into meaningful signals would be incredible. But again, hopefully it can be used for peaceful activities and not war situations. Also, this is another example of the externalized ability of the human which has been long since forgotten in the age of the machine. But still very cool. A little scary with regard to military applications but still pretty cool.