Professor Cyborg

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Professor cyborg

If we want to stop machines from taking over,
we better start becoming more like them.
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By Janelle Brown / SALON



"The Matrix," last summer's sci-fi box-office smash, envisions a future in which artificially intelligent computers take over. Instead of programming the computers, humans become the slave race, serving as living batteries that provide energy for their former desktop tools.

What a bummer. But hey, that's just Hollywood science fiction, right? Wrong, says Kevin Warwick, a professor at the department of cybernetics at the University of Reading in England -- the British equivalent of the M.I.T. Media Lab -- who has spent his career working on robotics, creating machine intelligence and, most controversially, building human-computer implants for use in his own body. Author of the recent computers-can-think book "March of the Machines: Why the New Race of Robots Will Rule the World," Warwick is the futurist most likely to be quoted throughout British newspapers direly predicting that computers may conquer the world within our lifetime. As he himself describes his work, "It's like creating science fiction."

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