It’s a whole new world when the Internet of Things is part of you. In the future, everyone will be IoT-enhanced — bodies and minds connected via the internet to other things and people, everyone enhanced beyond normal human abilities.
Join Andreea and Charles as they go beyond wearables, and discuss a future where “the Internet of Things…is people!”
Topics
- Dumb (passive) prosthetics vs. smart (active) prosthetics
- Hugh Herr, MIT Media Lab
- Powered ankle/foot prosthesis
- How are these smart prosthetics be part of the IoT?
- Benefits of connecting to your central nervous system
- Darpa’s touch-sensitive prosthetic
- Australian study on improving vision in mice
- Argus 2 retinal prosthetic system
- Bionic Vision Australia’s bionic eye
- Type 1 diabetes
- IoT pancreas
- Internet of Nano-Things?
- Sperm-bots
- How do you power something that’s embedded inside your body?
- Security: When hacks can kill
- Intimacy and consequences of prosthetics vs. implants
- Transhumanism and humanity’s conflicted relationship with enhancement
- Sports
- LZR Racer swimsuit broke 168 world records this year
- Banned as performance-enhancing substance in the Vancouver 2010 Olympics
- LZR Racer swimsuit broke 168 world records this year
- Military
- What happens when the Internet is in everyone’s brain?
- What happens when we can’t disconnect?
- Life extension
- Upgrades (!)
- Timeframes
- Flexible and temporary form factors
- How the IoT changes drug administration
- More personalized health
- 3D printing and prosthetics
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