{"id":35089,"date":"2017-03-05T23:22:37","date_gmt":"2017-03-06T07:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/are-we-ready-for-cyborgs-the-tech-is-on-its-way"},"modified":"2017-06-04T07:10:14","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T14:10:14","slug":"are-we-ready-for-cyborgs-the-tech-is-on-its-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/are-we-ready-for-cyborgs-the-tech-is-on-its-way","title":{"rendered":"Are We Ready for Cyborgs? The Tech Is on Its Way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/are-we-ready-for-cyborgs-the-tech-is-on-its-way.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Are we ready for cyborgs? More specifically, people with implants that enhance beyond the superficially cosmetic and into the realms of evolved beings?<\/p>\n<p>Jorge Pelegr\u00edn-Borondo (Universidad de La Rioja), Eva Reinares-Lara (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos) and Cristina Olarte-Pascual (Universidad de La Rioja), in cooperation with Professor Kiyoshi Murata, from Meiji University in Tokyo, believe society is ready for this melding of (hu)man and machine.<\/p>\n<p>The Spanish academics\u2019 report \u201cAssessing the acceptance of technological implants (the cyborg): Evidences and challenges\u201d has just been released in the scientific journal <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/journal\/07475632\">Computers in Human Behavior<\/a>. The report shows a significant proportion of those surveyed are comfortable with the coming cyborg modifications. The group are also collaborating with other academics across the world, including Professor Kiyoshi Murata, for a comparative cross-cultural study roundtable at the <a href=\"http:\/\/easychair.org\/smart-program\/CEPEETHICOMP2017\/index.html\">2017 ETHICOMP<\/a> conference this summer in Turin, Italy.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2017\/03\/04\/are-we-ready-for-cyborgs-the-tech-is-on-its-way\/?utm_source=Singularity+Hub+Newsletter&utm_campaign=12834f7547-Hub_Daily_Newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f0cf60cdae-12834f7547-58181461\">https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2017\/03\/04\/are-we-ready-for-cybor...5;58181461<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are we ready for cyborgs? More specifically, people with implants that enhance beyond the superficially cosmetic and into the realms of evolved beings? Jorge Pelegr\u00edn-Borondo (Universidad de La Rioja), Eva Reinares-Lara (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos) and Cristina Olarte-Pascual (Universidad de La Rioja), in cooperation with Professor Kiyoshi Murata, from Meiji University in Tokyo, believe society [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1499],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-cyborgs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35089","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\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35089"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58493,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35089\/revisions\/58493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}