{"id":119348,"date":"2021-02-08T22:23:50","date_gmt":"2021-02-09T06:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/the-father-of-the-cyborgs"},"modified":"2021-02-08T22:23:50","modified_gmt":"2021-02-09T06:23:50","slug":"the-father-of-the-cyborgs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/the-father-of-the-cyborgs","title":{"rendered":"The Father Of The Cyborgs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-father-of-the-cyborgs.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cA famous neurologist Phil Kennedy made global headlines in the late 1990s for implanting wire electrodes in the brain of a \u2018locked-in patient\u2019 to control a computer cursor with their mind. Compared to Alexander Graham Bell in The Washington Post, Kennedy became known as \u2018The Father of the Cyborgs\u2019. Travelling to South America in 2014, he made further headlines when tiny electrodes were implanted inside his brain in order to continue his research. This film examines the ethical quandaries of self-experimentation and a future where technology and human brains combine.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Screen Ireland\/F\u00eds \u00c9ireann is the development agency for the Irish Film Industry investing in talent, creativity and enterprise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cA famous neurologist Phil Kennedy made global headlines in the late 1990s for implanting wire electrodes in the brain of a \u2018locked-in patient\u2019 to control a computer cursor with their mind. Compared to Alexander Graham Bell in The Washington Post, Kennedy became known as \u2018The Father of the Cyborgs\u2019. Travelling to South America in 2014, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":542,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1523,1499,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-computing","category-cyborgs","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/542"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}