{"id":160532,"date":"2023-03-17T18:23:53","date_gmt":"2023-03-17T23:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/human-cyborg-documentary-transhumanism-neuroscience"},"modified":"2023-03-17T18:23:53","modified_gmt":"2023-03-17T23:23:53","slug":"human-cyborg-documentary-transhumanism-neuroscience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/human-cyborg-documentary-transhumanism-neuroscience","title":{"rendered":"Human Cyborg | Documentary | Transhumanism | Neuroscience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OYLXH_IKu1M?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Human Cyborg \u2014 We\u2019ve all seen Cyborgs in Hollywood blockbusters. But it turns out these fictional beings aren\u2019t so far-fetched.<\/p>\n<p>Human Cyborg (2020)<br \/> Director: Jacquelyn Marker.<br \/> Writers: Kyle McCabe, Christopher Webb Young.<br \/> Stars: Justin Abernethy, Robert Armiger, John Donoghue.<br \/> Genre: Documentary.<br \/> Country: United States.<br \/> Language: English.<br \/> Also Known As: Cyborg Revolution.<br \/> Release Date: 2020 (United States) <\/p>\n<p>Synopsis:<br \/> We\u2019ve all seen Cyborgs in Hollywood blockbusters. But it turns out these fictional beings aren\u2019t so far-fetched. In fact, this episode features a true-to-life cyborg, who at four months of age, was the youngest American to be outfitted with a myoelectric hand. And at one ground-breaking engineering facility, engineers are developing biotechnologies that can even further enhance high-tech like this by giving mechanical prosthetics something incredible: the physical sensation of touch!<\/p>\n<p>Other engineering firms are gearing up powerful exoskeletons that both rehabilitate and enhance the power of the human body\u2026 improving the lives of those with paralysis and transforming the work force.<\/p>\n<p>But the real pivot is getting machines inside the body. An out-of-the-box \u2018transhumanist\u2019 featured in the episode installs a chip inside a person\u2019s hand. It works as a key that unlocks doors, literally and figuratively.<\/p>\n<p>However, brain-machine integration poses the biggest challenges, and the biggest rewards. Cutting-edge neuroscientists and technologists reveal how computer chips can directly interface with the human brain in ways that not only rehabilitate, but which can also \u2018read thoughts\u2019 in real-time.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/human-cyborg-documentary-transhumanism-neuroscience\">Continue reading \u201cHuman Cyborg | Documentary | Transhumanism | Neuroscience\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Human Cyborg \u2014 We\u2019ve all seen Cyborgs in Hollywood blockbusters. But it turns out these fictional beings aren\u2019t so far-fetched. Human Cyborg (2020) Director: Jacquelyn Marker. Writers: Kyle McCabe, Christopher Webb Young. Stars: Justin Abernethy, Robert Armiger, John Donoghue. Genre: Documentary. Country: United States. Language: English. Also Known As: Cyborg Revolution. Release Date: 2020 (United [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1523,1499,32,38,47,1501],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-computing","category-cyborgs","category-education","category-engineering","category-neuroscience","category-transhumanism-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160532","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160532\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}