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Annihilation omens

Oct. 10, 2006 - By By Arnaud de Borchgrave

"Annihilation from Within," the new book by Fred C. Ikle, one of America's foremost strategic thinkers, suggests that brain-computer-interface(BCI)projects will one day produce "Homo Connectus," humans with brain-power greater than today's supercomputers.

This gigantic leap of history will "obliterate all previous notions about military power, pose a fundamental challenge to all religions, and eventually upend human civilization."

Source: Washington Times

The next big bang: Man meets machine

May 29, 2006 - Brainwave research is making amazing progress. Some experiments allow subjects to control pong-like games and switch TV channels simply by thinking about them.

All of these overlapping strands of scientific inquiry are known colloquially as "BANG," which stands for bits, atoms, neurons and genes. "All these things are converging because biology, nanotech and organic chemistry are running together."

Source: Cnet

Honda Says Brain Waves Control Robot

May 24, 2006 - Honda has developed an MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) analysis of brain activity that can be translated into signals to a robot. Later versions will have a portable helmet to collect the brain activity.

Source:Breitbart

Malaysian achieves success in artificial intelligence research

Apr. 25, 2005 - Dr M. Sethuraman, 26, has developed a break-through in the field of artifical intelligence, with the goal of producing robots that could “think, feel and behave like a human being.”

Dr Sethuraman said his research was based on an evolutionary process that allowed an Artificial Neural Network (ANN) – a microchip modelled on the human brain – to evolve in a modular fashion until real intelligence emerged.

Source: The Star

'Living' robots powered by muscle

Jan. 17, 2005 - Scientists at UCLA have built a tiny silicon chip with a simple skeleton. Living muscles from rat cells are attached to the chip, so that the little creation can move itself along without any external source of power.

Under a microscope, you can see the tiny, two-footed "bio-bots" crawl around.

Source:BBC

Of Mice, Men and In-Between

Nov. 20, 2004 - Numerous experiments are being conducted with human cells or organs growing inside animals. Creatures with mixtures of two or more individuals in a single body are called chimeras. Scientists are debating the ethics of these experiments, but so far there are no federal laws to restrict this field of study.

During one recent meeting, scientists disagreed on such basic issues as whether it would be unethical for a human embryo to begin its development in an animal's womb, and whether a mouse would be better or worse off with a brain made of human neurons.

Source:Washington Post

Thanks to Raiders News Update for articles about this subject.

Strange food for thought

June 17, 2004 - Brain enhancement drugs and brain imaging, or mapping, could lead to a future similar to the sci fi movie, "The Matrix." Will such enhanced humans be like Einstein or like Frankenstein?

2002 book "Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution," influential thinker Francis Fukuyama called for governmental regulation of using such technologies for neural enhancement.

Source:Christian Science Monitor

FDA Approves Human Brain Implant Devices

April 13, 2004 - Human trials are about to be conducted on tiny computer chips that are implanted in the human brain. Cyberkinetics Inc. of Foxboro, Mass., has received Food and Drug Administration approval for the tests, which they hope will lead to improved quality of life for victims of strokes and debilitating diseases like cerebral palsy or Lou Gehrig's.

If successful, the chips could allow patients to command a computer to act - merely by thinking about the instructions they wish to send.

Source:MyWay

The Techno Sapiens Are Coming

Dec. 19, 2003 - this fascinating article by C. Christopher Hook, director of bioethics education for the Mayo Graduate School of Medicine, details the advances of nanotechnology and the way it may change what a human is in the future.

Eradicate cancer. Retain and recall everything you can find on the Internet. Give your child a high IQ. ... Give sight to the blind. * Soon, you won't have to be God to fulfill this wish list. But you may not be human, either. *

The article contains an extensive list for further study on the subject.

Source:Christianity Today

Full Face Transplants No Longer Science Fiction

Nov. 28, 2002 - Peter Butler from London's Royal Free Hospital claims that we have the technology to do full face transplants, but there are many ethical questions that should be settled first.

Source:Reuters

Frankenstein fears after head transplant

Apr. 7, 2001 -

Professor Robert White, from Cleveland Ohio, transplanted a whole monkey's head onto another monkey's body, and the animal survived for some time after the operation.

Now the scientist wants to work toward human head transplants for people who have good minds but diseased or broken bodies.

The controversial procedure is considered "grotesque" by many other members of the scientific community.

Source: BBC

Genetic engineering boosts intelligence

Sept. 1, 1999 - Scientists at Princeton University have produced smarter mice by adding one gene which aids memory by association. Source: BBC News

Biocomputer uses living nerve cells to calculate

Aug, 1999 - A successful experiment in Atlanta uses nerve cells from leeches, connected to electronic devices to do simple addition. The union of electronics with biological nerves is still very primitive, but it promises a fascinating future. Source: Computer News Daily

Geneticists make faithful mice

Aug. 20, 1999 - BBC News

Facing a remote control future?

June 23, 1999 - The same technology used to allow a animal (mouse) to control a device by thought processes connected to external devices (see next article) could be used in reverse to allow computers to control human thought and action! Source: BBC News

Mind Over Matter

June 21, 1999 - Using a mouse, Dr John Chapin, of the MCP Hahnemann University School of Medicine in Philadelphia, has shown that a robotic device, such as an artificial arm could be activated directly by the brain. Much work must still be done to make it practical, but it is a big breakthrough in this field of science. Source: BBC News

The New Bionic Man

Feb. 1999 - Popular Mechanics

"New breaktrhoughs in Bionics perfect battery-powered eyes, ears, limbs and muscles."

Artificial retinas, cochleas, taste buds, muscles, heart pump, and connections between nerves and electronics are now available.

The Post-Human Century Awaits

Jan. 8, 1999 - This ZD Net article by Tom Steinert-Threlkeld suggests that the power of the personal computer will continue to increase geometrically, so that by 2025 it will be "smarter" than the human brain. It will continue to increase for a few years, surpassing the brain-power of an entire village, and then, by mid-century will have the power of the whole country! People will want, and will be given "memory strips and processing sheets implanted inside their skulls and connected to the tissue of their brains."

The article bases its ideas in part on the musings of Ray Kurzweil, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur who forsees the merging of the human and technology into a "Spiritual Machine." Cloning will become commonplace, and the contents of a person's aging brain could be scanned into a portion of the electronic brain which would then totally control the new-cloned body. At that point the real person will be the computer. In passing, at the very end of the article, he expresses hope that the human spirit will not become irrelevant.

Thanks to Jack Van Impe Ministries for finding this article.

Is human chip implant wave of the future?

From our "Mark Of The Beast" section

An Artificial Head

August 22, 1998 - In the New Scientist article, "Meet Kismet," science journalist Duncan Graham Rowe writes:

A disembodied head with gremlin-like features is about to be given life in the artificial intelligence department of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Named Kismet, the head is a robot that learns about its environment like a baby, depending almost entirely upon benevolent carers to help it find out about the world.
Researchers working on Kismet are part of a larger group in the AI department that is building an artificial humanoid called Cog. Kismet is Cog's baby brother, and what the researchers learn while putting the robots together will be shared to speed up development.

The Cog Shop

On this official site of MIT's Artificial Intelligence program, they answer the question, "Why build a human-like robot? "

Star Trek and Collectivism: The Case of The Borg

1997 article by Steven Yates on the dangers of the "A world-government-as-savior theme."

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