{"id":241854,"date":"2026-07-30T12:06:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T17:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/kevin-warwick-you-have-to-take-risks-to-be-part-of-the-future"},"modified":"2026-07-30T12:06:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T17:06:12","slug":"kevin-warwick-you-have-to-take-risks-to-be-part-of-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/kevin-warwick-you-have-to-take-risks-to-be-part-of-the-future","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Warwick: You Have To Take Risks To Be Part Of The Future"},"content":{"rendered":"

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2010, I sat down with a man who had a computer wired into the median nerve of his left arm and asked him if it was worth the risk.<\/p>\n

Kevin Warwick did not hedge: You have to take risks to be part of the future, he told me.<\/p>\n

Back then it sounded reckless. Warwick had already done what nobody else would do to their own body: a neurosurgical implant linking his nervous system directly to a machine, the first ultrasonic sense ever added to a human being, and the first purely electronic signal sent from one person\u2019s nervous system to another. The other person was his wife, Irena.<\/p>\n

Nearly sixteen years later, there is a billion-dollar #BrainComputerInterface industry circling the same territory, complete with funding rounds, FDA trials, and product launches. Warwick got there first, in a lab at Reading, with a surgeon and a spouse willing to go under the knife with him. That is what being the first #Cyborg actually cost.<\/p>\n

He also put a question to Ray Kurzweil that has never really been answered: why hasn\u2019t Ray experimented with implant technology yet? Talking about merging with machines is cheap. Getting cut open is not.<\/p>\n

We spent an hour on human and artificial intelligence, robotics, God, the beginning of the universe, and the #Singularity. The part that has aged the strangest is not the hardware. It is his line about who gets to shape the future and who just stands there watching it arrive.<\/p>\n

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2010, I sat down with a man who had a computer wired into the median nerve of his left arm and asked him if it was worth the risk. Kevin Warwick did not hedge: You have to take risks to be part of the future, he told me. Back then it sounded reckless. Warwick had [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":737,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1499,2018,6,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-cyborgs","category-ray-kurzweil","category-robotics-ai","category-singularity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241854","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\/737"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241854\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}