Post by Deleted on Nov 13, 2012 14:06:14 GMT
From the Borg Collective, humanoid and machine seen in Star Trek The Next Generation to Terminator and the film AI I bring you this story where truth isn’t stranger than fiction and closer to home than we think. Welcome to the future.
In the 1970s an American hit Television series The Six Million Dollar Man introduced us to Steve Austin, Lee Majors The Bionic Man, a former astronaut having been fitted with bionic implants giving him super human abilities with the power to run at incredible speeds to lifting cars and seeing at great distances with his bionic eye, using his incredible abilities for a government agency known as OSI. The series was based on the novel Cyborg by Martin Caidin. Are we really that close? Meet the real Bionic Man.
Maybe not quite the Six Million Dollar Man but two stories where human and cyborg technology come together.
Bionic hand gives a new lease of life
Man sees with 'bionic eye'
Over the years there have been many Sci fi books and films depicting future worlds where half human half machine, or just pure Cyborg either co-exist, working together or fighting for their survival. Thankfully we’re not about to see cyborgs taking over the world or destroying the human race. And neither some cybernetic implants taking over the human functioning of someone’s brain in order to wilfully control a person just yet, well hopefully not? But what is great about these two stories is how science can help us to achieve what was once thought the impossible, the imagined dreams of dreamers, writers and inventors, to helping people to continue on with a quality of their lives.
Shanti
Whitelighter
In the 1970s an American hit Television series The Six Million Dollar Man introduced us to Steve Austin, Lee Majors The Bionic Man, a former astronaut having been fitted with bionic implants giving him super human abilities with the power to run at incredible speeds to lifting cars and seeing at great distances with his bionic eye, using his incredible abilities for a government agency known as OSI. The series was based on the novel Cyborg by Martin Caidin. Are we really that close? Meet the real Bionic Man.
Maybe not quite the Six Million Dollar Man but two stories where human and cyborg technology come together.
Bionic hand gives a new lease of life
Man sees with 'bionic eye'
Over the years there have been many Sci fi books and films depicting future worlds where half human half machine, or just pure Cyborg either co-exist, working together or fighting for their survival. Thankfully we’re not about to see cyborgs taking over the world or destroying the human race. And neither some cybernetic implants taking over the human functioning of someone’s brain in order to wilfully control a person just yet, well hopefully not? But what is great about these two stories is how science can help us to achieve what was once thought the impossible, the imagined dreams of dreamers, writers and inventors, to helping people to continue on with a quality of their lives.
Shanti
Whitelighter
much to the annoyance of my gran.