Visualizing the Posthuman

摘要

No longer a cloud on the distant horizon, the posthuman is rapidly becoming an everyday reality. Kevin Warwick communicates in binary code with computer devices in the environment via an implant in his arm; portions of a lamprey eel brain, transplanted into a mobile robot, direct the robot's motion; Cog, Rodney Brooks's humanoid robot, surveys the environment and plays catch with a human interlocutor.