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AI vs Humanity – Transhumanist Augmentation
John R. Houk, Blog Editor
© May 29, 2026
My science fiction immersed childhood and youth (1960s -1970s with a smattering of 1980s Sci-Fi movies), has moved me into the realm of distrust for all things Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Transhumanist augmentation.
When I post or share my concerns critics of my distrust come out of the woodwork claiming AI is nothing more than programming or algorithms which cannot exceed its design. Frankly, I am not a science guy. Which means I’ll never be able to engage with science language to dispute my critics. BUT I can read and what I read gives me a bad feeling in my gut.
I just has another gut check after Sam Faddis and Dr. Robert Malone. Faddis on a future AI vs Humanity. And Dr. Malone on Transhumanist augmentation with a smattering of AI.
When I was growing in a small town there was no internet and no mobile devices. At the time my small town was considered a rural town even though a State College had a presence. If it wasn’t for the college my small town would be best described as a cow town. Indeed, the small town locals seemed to often clash with the small State College presence.
My childhood was immersed in a culture where no one locked their doors and you knew your neighbors from blocks around. If you ever watched TV’s Leave It To Beaver or the big screen The Sandlot, those were lighthearted snapshots of my childhood culture.
As I approach 70 in November 2026, the Internet, AI, Smart Phone and emerging Transhumanist culture seems such a sad trend compared to memories of yesteryears.
JRH 5/29/26
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The Coming AI Intelligence Explosion And Why You Are The Problem
By Sam Faddis
May 28, 2026
AI vs Humanity (AND Magazine Photo)
In the intelligence business, this is what we call “bad”.
But, never mind, nothing to see here. You definitely should not express concern about this possibility, or someone from the government might come speak with you.
Let me explain.
First of all, let’s talk about this whole “intelligence explosion” thing. Here’s the gist. Up until now, we have dealt with computers and programs that we program. Periodically, somebody announces they have created a new, more advanced “thing”, and we debate its pros and cons, but we assume that we are the ones doing the creating. We are the ones making the decisions. We are in control.
We are fast approaching the day when, for AI, that will no longer be true in any relevant sense. AI will have the capacity to evolve, “advance” and morph into something completely new. It will do so, of course, at the speed of light. This will not be gradual. This may well be effectively instantaneous. By the time you even know it has happened, it is too late. You are living, or perhaps not living, with the consequences.
Yes, if you ever watched Terminator 2: Judgment Day, you will now be hearing in your head echoes of this line. “Skynet begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, August 29th. In a panic, they try to pull the plug.”
Intelligence Explosion: Evidence and Import
The economic impacts of the rush to expand AI are already upon us. Estimates are that AI is taking 16,000 jobs net away from humans every month. Nobody has any clear idea of what those people are now supposed to do for work. Now, on top of what may prove to be economic devastation, we are talking about rolling the dice and hoping AI doesn’t just decide to erase humanity and start with a clean slate.
And the government’s reaction to all this is to trot out the usual Deep State playbook and begin to label and categorize anyone protesting and asking questions. To that end, we now have a new acronym, AGAAVE, anti-government, anti-authority, violent extremist. Yes, that is now a thing.
A recent Wired magazine expose did an admirable job of shining a light on a whole series of governmental entities, at the federal, state, and local levels, that are now highly concerned about dangerous nutjobs who are trying to hold up this whole AI goldrush and raising concerns about its implications.
No word on whether these anti-tech people also include some of those “crazy” people who raised concerns about electoral integrity or resisted taking experimental vaccines to combat a disease that was essentially a bad flu, or thought we should not be throwing Joe Biden’s political opponents in prison and spying on sitting members of Congress.
Lest you think that the government has confined itself to simply writing reports and creating new categories of “extremist,” the Wired report makes clear that agencies at multiple levels are already targeting anti-AI and anti-data center groups operationally and monitoring their activities.
We are driving toward a cliff at full throttle. We have uncorked a bottle and released a genie that we do not fully understand and which we may well not be able to control. Experts in the field of AI are talking openly about the distinct possibility that this thing we have created may simply decide one day in the blink of an eye to utilize our atoms differently. It may simply erase us and start over.
But if you are raising concerns about that, you are the problem.
© 2026 AND Magazine
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Human Augmentation Is No Longer Science Fiction
May 28, 2026
Human Augmentation – The Next Battlefield (Malone News Photo)
Three years ago, we wrote about a joint UK and German Ministry of Defense report titled Human Augmentation – The Dawn of a New Paradigm (1,2). At the time, many critics dismissed the document as speculative futurism, military fantasy, or the fever dream of transhumanists intoxicated by Silicon Valley ideology.
It is no longer possible to deny the reality of the situation – human augmentation is being developed more rapidly than we all could have imagined.
What was once presented as theoretical is now becoming operational doctrine.
The discussion has shifted. Human augmentation is no longer framed primarily as a distant ethical dilemma. It is increasingly being treated by military planners, AI developers, and national security bureaucracies as an unavoidable strategic necessity. The language has changed from “should we?” to “how fast can we deploy it before our adversaries do?”
That should alarm everyone.
The original report argued that future wars would not be won by whoever possessed the best machines, but by whoever most effectively merged human beings with machines (2). At the time, that sounded like science fiction to many.
But look around today. AI copilots are everywhere. Autonomous drones -which rumor has it are capable of deciding who lives and who dies without a human pulling the trigger- dominate modern battlefields. Machine-learning systems increasingly assist intelligence analysis, targeting, surveillance, logistics, and command decisions.
The battlefield envisioned by the report is arriving faster than even its authors predicted.
And the missing piece is no longer the machine.
It is the human.
Military planners are now openly discussing ways to optimize cognition, decision speed, stress tolerance, fatigue resistance, emotional regulation, and direct brain-machine communication. Not someday. Now.
DARPA has aggressively advanced programs designed to create high-performance brain-computer interfaces for military personnel (3). The stated goal is to allow soldiers to directly interact with autonomous systems, including drone swarms and AI-assisted battlefield platforms. Recent military papers openly discuss reducing “cognitive overload” through neural interfaces linked to machine-learning systems (5).
Think carefully about what that means.
The problem modern warfare faces is not merely firepower. It is information saturation. The side that can process information faster, fuse data more efficiently, and shorten decision loops gains overwhelming advantage. Human augmentation is increasingly viewed as the solution.
This is not about stronger muscles or robotic exoskeletons, although those continue to be developed for logistics and battlefield endurance (8). The real focus has shifted toward the brain itself.
- Cognitive warfare.
- Neurostimulation.
- Behavioral optimization.
- AI-linked command systems.
- Pharmacologic enhancement.
- Predictive biometric monitoring.
- Direct neural integration with machines.
This is where the money is going.
And once again, the same rhetorical pathway appears that we have seen so many times before. The technologies are introduced under the banner of therapy, rehabilitation, safety, and medical necessity. Advanced prosthetics become enhanced prosthetics. Neurological rehabilitation becomes cognitive optimization. Monitoring for wellness becomes monitoring for performance and compliance.
The line between treatment and enhancement rapidly disappears.
That is not speculation. That is exactly what military and bioethics literature is now openly discussing (7,9).
One of the most disturbing developments over the last three years is how quickly ethical resistance has softened inside defense circles. Increasingly, military ethicists argue that democratic nations may need to loosen ethical restrictions on enhancement technologies because authoritarian adversaries will not hesitate to deploy them (6).
In other words, the moral argument is becoming secondary to geopolitical competition.
The logic is brutally simple:
If China develops enhanced warfighters and the West refuses to compete, the West loses.
That argument is now appearing with increasing frequency in military policy discussions.
The original UK-German report bluntly stated that human augmentation should not ultimately be decided by ethicists or public opinion, but by national interest (2). At the time, that statement shocked many readers. Today it reads less like a warning and more like a roadmap.
Perhaps the most profound shift since 2022 is cultural.
The public has already been conditioned for much of this transition.
Millions of people now voluntarily wear devices that continuously track sleep, heart rate, movement, stress, location, temperature, and biological activity. AI systems increasingly monitor behavior, communications, productivity, and emotional state. Entire generations have normalized the idea that biological and behavioral data should be constantly harvested, analyzed, and fed into algorithmic systems.
Human beings are gradually being transformed into integrated biological data platforms.
And once that infrastructure exists, military and state applications inevitably follow.
The old industrial model treated humans as machine operators.
The emerging biotech model treats humans themselves as programmable platforms.
That is the real paradigm shift.
What makes this especially dangerous is the extraordinary hubris driving much of the field. Increasingly, scientists, technologists, military planners, and governments speak openly about directing human evolution itself through genetic engineering, neurotechnology, and AI-assisted biological modification (4).
Six million years of evolution are now viewed by some as merely an outdated starting point to be “optimized.”
History suggests caution here.
Every era that became convinced it could engineer a better human being eventually descended into ethical catastrophe. The tools change. The rhetoric modernizes. But the underlying temptation remains the same: centralizing power over biology itself.
And unlike the crude eugenics movements of the past, modern human augmentation is emerging wrapped in the language of medicine, national security, efficiency, resilience, and technological progress.
That makes it far more politically durable.
The greatest danger may not be some dramatic moment when governments announce the arrival of “enhanced humans.” The real danger is incremental normalization.
Small steps.
- Therapeutic uses.
- Military exemptions.
- Workplace optimization.
- AI-assisted monitoring.
- Cognitive enhancement “for safety.”
- Genetic modification “for resilience.”
Until eventually the infrastructure for total biological integration already exists before society fully understands what has happened.
Three years ago, many people laughed at the idea that governments and militaries were seriously planning for large-scale human augmentation.
They are not laughing anymore.
The frightening part is not that the technology is coming.
The frightening part is how quietly the debate is disappearing.
JGM/RWM
References
1. Malone RW. Human Augmentation: The Dawn of a New Paradigm. Malone News. January 2022.
https://www.malone.news/p/human-augmentation-the-dawn-of-a2. UK Ministry of Defence and German Federal Ministry of Defence. Human Augmentation – The Dawn of a New Paradigm: A Strategic Implications Project. May 2021.
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/60c749f8d3bf7f4bd0e3b1a5/Human_Augmentation_SIP_access2.pdf3. DARPA. Next-Generation Nonsurgical Neurotechnology (N3).
https://www.darpa.mil/research/programs/next-generation-nonsurgical-neurotechnology4. DARPA. Safe Genes Program.
https://www.darpa.mil/research/programs/safe-genes5. Shendruk TN et al. Brain Computer Interface Technology for Future Battlefield. arXiv. 2023.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.078186. Small Wars Journal. Neither Ironman nor the Hulk: Human Enhancements for Military Purposes. January 2025.
https://smallwarsjournal.com/2025/01/24/neither-ironman-nor-the-hulk-human-enhancements-for-military-purposes/7. BMJ Military Health. Emerging Military Applications of Neuroenhancement and Cognitive Optimization. 2025.
https://militaryhealth.bmj.com/content/early/2025/08/18/military-2025-0029648. Wired Magazine. The US Army’s Vision of an Exoskeleton Future Lives On.
https://www.wired.com/story/the-us-armys-vision-of-an-exoskeleton-future-lives-on9. National Library of Medicine / PMC. Ethical and Policy Challenges in Human Enhancement Technologies.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12799693/© 2026 Robert W Malone, MD
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AI vs Humanity – Transhumanist Augmentation
John R. Houk, Blog Editor
© May 29, 2026
My science fiction immersed childhood and youth (1960s -1970s with a smattering of 1980s Sci-Fi movies), has moved me into the realm of distrust for all things Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Transhumanist augmentation.
When I post or share my concerns critics of my distrust come out of the woodwork claiming AI is nothing more than programming or algorithms which cannot exceed its design. Frankly, I am not a science guy. Which means I’ll never be able to engage with science language to dispute my critics. BUT I can read and what I read gives me a bad feeling in my gut.
I just has another gut check after Sam Faddis and Dr. Robert Malone. Faddis on a future AI vs Humanity. And Dr. Malone on Transhumanist augmentation with a smattering of AI.
When I was growing in a small town there was no internet and no mobile devices. At the time my small town was considered a rural town even though a State College had a presence. If it wasn’t for the college my small town would be best described as a cow town. Indeed, the small town locals seemed to often clash with the small State College presence.
My childhood was immersed in a culture where no one locked their doors and you knew your neighbors from blocks around. If you ever watched TV’s Leave It To Beaver or the big screen The Sandlot, those were lighthearted snapshots of my childhood culture.
As I approach 70 in November 2026, the Internet, AI, Smart Phone and emerging Transhumanist culture seems such a sad trend compared to memories of yesteryears.
JRH 5/29/26
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The Coming AI Intelligence Explosion And Why You Are The Problem
By Sam Faddis
May 28, 2026
AI vs Humanity (AND Magazine Photo)
In the intelligence business, this is what we call “bad”.
But, never mind, nothing to see here. You definitely should not express concern about this possibility, or someone from the government might come speak with you.
Let me explain.
First of all, let’s talk about this whole “intelligence explosion” thing. Here’s the gist. Up until now, we have dealt with computers and programs that we program. Periodically, somebody announces they have created a new, more advanced “thing”, and we debate its pros and cons, but we assume that we are the ones doing the creating. We are the ones making the decisions. We are in control.
We are fast approaching the day when, for AI, that will no longer be true in any relevant sense. AI will have the capacity to evolve, “advance” and morph into something completely new. It will do so, of course, at the speed of light. This will not be gradual. This may well be effectively instantaneous. By the time you even know it has happened, it is too late. You are living, or perhaps not living, with the consequences.
Yes, if you ever watched Terminator 2: Judgment Day, you will now be hearing in your head echoes of this line. “Skynet begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, August 29th. In a panic, they try to pull the plug.”
Intelligence Explosion: Evidence and Import
The economic impacts of the rush to expand AI are already upon us. Estimates are that AI is taking 16,000 jobs net away from humans every month. Nobody has any clear idea of what those people are now supposed to do for work. Now, on top of what may prove to be economic devastation, we are talking about rolling the dice and hoping AI doesn’t just decide to erase humanity and start with a clean slate.
And the government’s reaction to all this is to trot out the usual Deep State playbook and begin to label and categorize anyone protesting and asking questions. To that end, we now have a new acronym, AGAAVE, anti-government, anti-authority, violent extremist. Yes, that is now a thing.
A recent Wired magazine expose did an admirable job of shining a light on a whole series of governmental entities, at the federal, state, and local levels, that are now highly concerned about dangerous nutjobs who are trying to hold up this whole AI goldrush and raising concerns about its implications.
No word on whether these anti-tech people also include some of those “crazy” people who raised concerns about electoral integrity or resisted taking experimental vaccines to combat a disease that was essentially a bad flu, or thought we should not be throwing Joe Biden’s political opponents in prison and spying on sitting members of Congress.
Lest you think that the government has confined itself to simply writing reports and creating new categories of “extremist,” the Wired report makes clear that agencies at multiple levels are already targeting anti-AI and anti-data center groups operationally and monitoring their activities.
We are driving toward a cliff at full throttle. We have uncorked a bottle and released a genie that we do not fully understand and which we may well not be able to control. Experts in the field of AI are talking openly about the distinct possibility that this thing we have created may simply decide one day in the blink of an eye to utilize our atoms differently. It may simply erase us and start over.
But if you are raising concerns about that, you are the problem.
© 2026 AND Magazine
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Human Augmentation Is No Longer Science Fiction
May 28, 2026
Human Augmentation – The Next Battlefield (Malone News Photo)
Three years ago, we wrote about a joint UK and German Ministry of Defense report titled Human Augmentation – The Dawn of a New Paradigm (1,2). At the time, many critics dismissed the document as speculative futurism, military fantasy, or the fever dream of transhumanists intoxicated by Silicon Valley ideology.
It is no longer possible to deny the reality of the situation – human augmentation is being developed more rapidly than we all could have imagined.
What was once presented as theoretical is now becoming operational doctrine.
The discussion has shifted. Human augmentation is no longer framed primarily as a distant ethical dilemma. It is increasingly being treated by military planners, AI developers, and national security bureaucracies as an unavoidable strategic necessity. The language has changed from “should we?” to “how fast can we deploy it before our adversaries do?”
That should alarm everyone.
The original report argued that future wars would not be won by whoever possessed the best machines, but by whoever most effectively merged human beings with machines (2). At the time, that sounded like science fiction to many.
But look around today. AI copilots are everywhere. Autonomous drones -which rumor has it are capable of deciding who lives and who dies without a human pulling the trigger- dominate modern battlefields. Machine-learning systems increasingly assist intelligence analysis, targeting, surveillance, logistics, and command decisions.
The battlefield envisioned by the report is arriving faster than even its authors predicted.
And the missing piece is no longer the machine.
It is the human.
Military planners are now openly discussing ways to optimize cognition, decision speed, stress tolerance, fatigue resistance, emotional regulation, and direct brain-machine communication. Not someday. Now.
DARPA has aggressively advanced programs designed to create high-performance brain-computer interfaces for military personnel (3). The stated goal is to allow soldiers to directly interact with autonomous systems, including drone swarms and AI-assisted battlefield platforms. Recent military papers openly discuss reducing “cognitive overload” through neural interfaces linked to machine-learning systems (5).
Think carefully about what that means.
The problem modern warfare faces is not merely firepower. It is information saturation. The side that can process information faster, fuse data more efficiently, and shorten decision loops gains overwhelming advantage. Human augmentation is increasingly viewed as the solution.
This is not about stronger muscles or robotic exoskeletons, although those continue to be developed for logistics and battlefield endurance (8). The real focus has shifted toward the brain itself.
- Cognitive warfare.
- Neurostimulation.
- Behavioral optimization.
- AI-linked command systems.
- Pharmacologic enhancement.
- Predictive biometric monitoring.
- Direct neural integration with machines.
This is where the money is going.
And once again, the same rhetorical pathway appears that we have seen so many times before. The technologies are introduced under the banner of therapy, rehabilitation, safety, and medical necessity. Advanced prosthetics become enhanced prosthetics. Neurological rehabilitation becomes cognitive optimization. Monitoring for wellness becomes monitoring for performance and compliance.
The line between treatment and enhancement rapidly disappears.
That is not speculation. That is exactly what military and bioethics literature is now openly discussing (7,9).
One of the most disturbing developments over the last three years is how quickly ethical resistance has softened inside defense circles. Increasingly, military ethicists argue that democratic nations may need to loosen ethical restrictions on enhancement technologies because authoritarian adversaries will not hesitate to deploy them (6).
In other words, the moral argument is becoming secondary to geopolitical competition.
The logic is brutally simple:
If China develops enhanced warfighters and the West refuses to compete, the West loses.
That argument is now appearing with increasing frequency in military policy discussions.
The original UK-German report bluntly stated that human augmentation should not ultimately be decided by ethicists or public opinion, but by national interest (2). At the time, that statement shocked many readers. Today it reads less like a warning and more like a roadmap.
Perhaps the most profound shift since 2022 is cultural.
The public has already been conditioned for much of this transition.
Millions of people now voluntarily wear devices that continuously track sleep, heart rate, movement, stress, location, temperature, and biological activity. AI systems increasingly monitor behavior, communications, productivity, and emotional state. Entire generations have normalized the idea that biological and behavioral data should be constantly harvested, analyzed, and fed into algorithmic systems.
Human beings are gradually being transformed into integrated biological data platforms.
And once that infrastructure exists, military and state applications inevitably follow.
The old industrial model treated humans as machine operators.
The emerging biotech model treats humans themselves as programmable platforms.
That is the real paradigm shift.
What makes this especially dangerous is the extraordinary hubris driving much of the field. Increasingly, scientists, technologists, military planners, and governments speak openly about directing human evolution itself through genetic engineering, neurotechnology, and AI-assisted biological modification (4).
Six million years of evolution are now viewed by some as merely an outdated starting point to be “optimized.”
History suggests caution here.
Every era that became convinced it could engineer a better human being eventually descended into ethical catastrophe. The tools change. The rhetoric modernizes. But the underlying temptation remains the same: centralizing power over biology itself.
And unlike the crude eugenics movements of the past, modern human augmentation is emerging wrapped in the language of medicine, national security, efficiency, resilience, and technological progress.
That makes it far more politically durable.
The greatest danger may not be some dramatic moment when governments announce the arrival of “enhanced humans.” The real danger is incremental normalization.
Small steps.
- Therapeutic uses.
- Military exemptions.
- Workplace optimization.
- AI-assisted monitoring.
- Cognitive enhancement “for safety.”
- Genetic modification “for resilience.”
Until eventually the infrastructure for total biological integration already exists before society fully understands what has happened.
Three years ago, many people laughed at the idea that governments and militaries were seriously planning for large-scale human augmentation.
They are not laughing anymore.
The frightening part is not that the technology is coming.
The frightening part is how quietly the debate is disappearing.
JGM/RWM
References
1. Malone RW. Human Augmentation: The Dawn of a New Paradigm. Malone News. January 2022.
https://www.malone.news/p/human-augmentation-the-dawn-of-a2. UK Ministry of Defence and German Federal Ministry of Defence. Human Augmentation – The Dawn of a New Paradigm: A Strategic Implications Project. May 2021.
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/60c749f8d3bf7f4bd0e3b1a5/Human_Augmentation_SIP_access2.pdf3. DARPA. Next-Generation Nonsurgical Neurotechnology (N3).
https://www.darpa.mil/research/programs/next-generation-nonsurgical-neurotechnology4. DARPA. Safe Genes Program.
https://www.darpa.mil/research/programs/safe-genes5. Shendruk TN et al. Brain Computer Interface Technology for Future Battlefield. arXiv. 2023.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.078186. Small Wars Journal. Neither Ironman nor the Hulk: Human Enhancements for Military Purposes. January 2025.
https://smallwarsjournal.com/2025/01/24/neither-ironman-nor-the-hulk-human-enhancements-for-military-purposes/7. BMJ Military Health. Emerging Military Applications of Neuroenhancement and Cognitive Optimization. 2025.
https://militaryhealth.bmj.com/content/early/2025/08/18/military-2025-0029648. Wired Magazine. The US Army’s Vision of an Exoskeleton Future Lives On.
https://www.wired.com/story/the-us-armys-vision-of-an-exoskeleton-future-lives-on9. National Library of Medicine / PMC. Ethical and Policy Challenges in Human Enhancement Technologies.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12799693/© 2026 Robert W Malone, MD
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In the thirteenth century, Aquinas wrote that story; he sanctified the ownership of land and the serf’s body by the lord as “divine order.” In the twenty‑first century, Yuval Noah Harari takes on the same task. Only this time, God gives way to Data, and divine order to the Algorithm.
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🌍 New global collaboration: “Enhancing Humanity - Inclusive Future through Human Augmentation”
Researchers worldwide are exploring how AI, VR & human augmentation can enable more inclusive participation 🤖♿
From education to work, the focus is on real-world impact – not sci-fi.
Proud that Prof. Giulia Barbareschi (RC Trust) is part of this initiative.
Key question: Who does technology actually work for?
Learn more here: https://rc-trust.ai/news/news-detail/global-research-shaping-inclusive-human-futures
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Imagine...a magnet in your finger; What a concept!🤣#biohacking #humanaugmentation #magnetimplant https://youtube.com/shorts/g5H3eLi3wHM?si=Bec5VEcryzhUoim4
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Imagine...a magnet in your finger; What a concept!🤣#biohacking #humanaugmentation #magnetimplant https://youtube.com/shorts/g5H3eLi3wHM?si=Bec5VEcryzhUoim4
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A bold view on tech boosting work productivity. Share your thoughts below! #AugmentedWorkforce #HumanAugmentation #WearableTech #Exoskeletons #BrainComputerInterface
https://medium.com/@sanjay.mohindroo66/empowering-humans-empowering-work-the-new-frontier-of-human-augmentation-1a341c9a1eb0 -
Next Project: Running #DOOM on an implant #humanaugmentation
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Next Project: Running #DOOM on an implant #humanaugmentation
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@kkarhan 🌟 Imagine playing the guitar faster or holding an extra tool with ease—all thanks to an extra thumb! Dani Clode and neuroscientist Tamar Makin at the University of Cambridge are making this a reality. 🦾🎵
https://youtu.be/fIuEw_q1ZQE
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@kkarhan 🌟 Imagine playing the guitar faster or holding an extra tool with ease—all thanks to an extra thumb! Dani Clode and neuroscientist Tamar Makin at the University of Cambridge are making this a reality. 🦾🎵
https://youtu.be/fIuEw_q1ZQE
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Come check out my latest talk, "Beneath the Skin: Exploring Human-Tech Augmentation Myths," at @thotcon on May 30–31, 2025! #HumanAugmentation #Biohacking #Microchip #thotcon #hacking
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Come check out my latest talk, "Beneath the Skin: Exploring Human-Tech Augmentation Myths," at @thotcon on May 30–31, 2025! #HumanAugmentation #Biohacking #Microchip #thotcon #hacking
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Sag mal, ITAS - Was können Exoskelette? 🦾👀
Stärker, schneller, präziser - so könnten wir arbeiten und leben, wenn wir #Exoskelette benutzen. Aber warum sehen wir Exoskelette nur in Hollywood? Über die Chancen und Risiken von Exoskeletten und #HumanAugmentation spricht Jérémy Lefint mit Dir.
*Wir haben echte Exoskelette zum Anschauen und Anfassen vor Ort.* 👉🤖📆 Dienstag, 10. Dezember 2024, 13-18 Uhr
📍 Karlstraße 9, Karlsruhe
⭐ Eintritt frei. Du kannst jederzeit kommen und gehen. Wir freuen uns auf Dich!“Sag mal, ITAS” ist eine Veranstaltungsreihe des ITAS am @KIT_Karlsruhe in Karl9 - Wissenschaftslokal für Technik und Gesellschaft.
Forschende verlegen ihren Arbeitsplatz jeden Dienstagnachmittag in Karl9 und beantworten Deine Fragen zu ihren Forschungsthemen.Alle Ausgaben von #sagmalitas findest Du hier
➡️ https://www.itas.kit.edu/veranstaltungen_sagmalitas.phpMehr über Karl9 erfährst Du unter
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🚀 Imagine a world where your thoughts can type, design, or even control devices! 🌟
Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCIs) are making this possible by creating direct communication between your brain and computers. Whether it's typing with your mind or controlling a robotic arm, BCIs are transforming how we interact with technology.
Share your thoughts how do you envision using mind-controlled computers?#BCI #NeuroTech #MindControlTech #HumanAugmentation #BrainTech #Neuronus #TechNews
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If you’ve ever been curious about RFID/NFC microchips, implanted sensory magnets, biohacking, or human augmentation, now’s your chance to ask those burning questions! We're putting together the Augmenter's Biohacking FAQ! https://github.com/INIT6Source/AUGMENTERS-BIOHACKING-FAQ #biohacking #humanaugmentation #microchip #implant
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If you’ve ever been curious about RFID/NFC microchips, implanted sensory magnets, biohacking, or human augmentation, now’s your chance to ask those burning questions! We're putting together the Augmenter's Biohacking FAQ! https://github.com/INIT6Source/AUGMENTERS-BIOHACKING-FAQ #biohacking #humanaugmentation #microchip #implant
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Jetzt auch auf @sternde: „Geniale Idee“. Es geht um robotische #Exoskelette, und wie diese Menschen bei schwerer körperlicher Arbeit unterstützen: https://www.stern.de/panorama/wissen/exoskelett--so-kann-die-muskelkraft-zum-anschnallen-menschen-entlasten-33218944.html #Arbeitsschutz #HumanAugmentation
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Jetzt auch auf @sternde: „Geniale Idee“. Es geht um robotische #Exoskelette, und wie diese Menschen bei schwerer körperlicher Arbeit unterstützen: https://www.stern.de/panorama/wissen/exoskelett--so-kann-die-muskelkraft-zum-anschnallen-menschen-entlasten-33218944.html #Arbeitsschutz #HumanAugmentation
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For those interested in #search, I've rewritten much of the introductory article on my plans for a next-generation search engine: https://github.com/davidshq/next-search
I've defined the #philosophical characteristics (#ethical commitments to create a better world) and foundational characteristic (that which delivers the superior results, #HumanAugmentation) of the #SearchEngine.
#InformationRetrieval #WebSearch
As always, feedback is greatly appreciated. I have much to learn!
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For those interested in #search, I've rewritten much of the introductory article on my plans for a next-generation search engine: https://github.com/davidshq/next-search
I've defined the #philosophical characteristics (#ethical commitments to create a better world) and foundational characteristic (that which delivers the superior results, #HumanAugmentation) of the #SearchEngine.
#InformationRetrieval #WebSearch
As always, feedback is greatly appreciated. I have much to learn!
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Who wouldn't like to have three arms? At least temporarily... #HumanAugmentation
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RT @mashable
In Japan, a lab is quietly building friendly versions of Dr. Octopus’ robot arms #StrictlyRobots
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Who wouldn't like to have three arms? At least temporarily... #HumanAugmentation
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RT @mashable
In Japan, a lab is quietly building friendly versions of Dr. Octopus’ robot arms #StrictlyRobots
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Love to see the Development, Concepts and Doctrine Centre of the UK Ministry of Defence publishing things like this:
"Economic interests will heavily influence the direction of human augmentation development and they are likely to differ from society’s interests. The private sector invests more in research and development and has greater organisational agility than state institutions, meaning it can employ the best researchers to stay at the cutting edge of human augmentation research. Developing enhancements is likely to be highly profitable but activities will focus on the most lucrative activities and not necessarily on those that deliver the greatest benefit to humanity. The tension between states, societies and market forces is nothing new, but the consequences of mismanaging a technology as potent as human augmentation could be profound."
#HumanAugmentation #PrivateSector #Capitalism
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/human-augmentation-the-dawn-of-a-new-paradigm
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Love to see the Development, Concepts and Doctrine Centre of the UK Ministry of Defence publishing things like this:
"Economic interests will heavily influence the direction of human augmentation development and they are likely to differ from society’s interests. The private sector invests more in research and development and has greater organisational agility than state institutions, meaning it can employ the best researchers to stay at the cutting edge of human augmentation research. Developing enhancements is likely to be highly profitable but activities will focus on the most lucrative activities and not necessarily on those that deliver the greatest benefit to humanity. The tension between states, societies and market forces is nothing new, but the consequences of mismanaging a technology as potent as human augmentation could be profound."
#HumanAugmentation #PrivateSector #Capitalism
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/human-augmentation-the-dawn-of-a-new-paradigm
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3/ Over time #SearchEngines largely replaced #WebDirectories - the ability to #search more of the #internet became more important than the ability to find the #BestOfTheWeb.
While we gained much in this manner we also lost much. I think we can still see folks yearning for #HumanAugmentation in the popularity of #AwesomeLists, e.g.:
https://github.com/vinta/awesome-python
https://github.com/avelino/awesome-go
https://github.com/vuejs/awesome-vue
https://github.com/papers-we-love/papers-we-loveThe lists go on...
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3/ Over time #SearchEngines largely replaced #WebDirectories - the ability to #search more of the #internet became more important than the ability to find the #BestOfTheWeb.
While we gained much in this manner we also lost much. I think we can still see folks yearning for #HumanAugmentation in the popularity of #AwesomeLists, e.g.:
https://github.com/vinta/awesome-python
https://github.com/avelino/awesome-go
https://github.com/vuejs/awesome-vue
https://github.com/papers-we-love/papers-we-loveThe lists go on...
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2/ But how could a #SearchEngine meaningfully improve #socioeconomic #equity?
I believe the best #search is provided by machines plus #HumanAugmentation.
For a long time we had #directories, e.g. #yahoo, #dmoz/#odp, #WorldWideWebVirtualLibrary, #InternetPublicLibrary that provides human #curated search results...and these results where often of high quality but limited in scale.
As the #internet became more integral to human life the ability to maintain human-curated directories decreased.
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2/ But how could a #SearchEngine meaningfully improve #socioeconomic #equity?
I believe the best #search is provided by machines plus #HumanAugmentation.
For a long time we had #directories, e.g. #yahoo, #dmoz/#odp, #WorldWideWebVirtualLibrary, #InternetPublicLibrary that provides human #curated search results...and these results where often of high quality but limited in scale.
As the #internet became more integral to human life the ability to maintain human-curated directories decreased.