Kevin Warwick: The Human-Machine Upgrade

Arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence, implants: The merg­ing of human and machine has begun a long time ago. As one of the pio­neers in this field Kevin War­wick had cum­put­er­chips implant­ed him­self and talks from his own expe­ri­ence about extend­ed sens­es and tele­path­ic communication.

Why should­n’t we enhance our­selves and our abil­i­ties with the help of implants? How will we under­stand the world in more dimen­sions in the future due to addi­tion­al sens­es? Which social and soci­o­log­i­cal changes pro­vide the pos­si­bil­i­ties for those ground-break­ing changes and how can we be pre­pared for them?