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
• 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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