Bring Your Own Cyber Human (BYOCH) – Part 1: Self-connected Humans

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Perhaps some of my readers and followers have ever played in their infancy the “Rock, Paper or Scissors” game. During each match, we simulated with our hands one of these three things, although in those years we could never think that any of it could connect to the Internet.

A few years later, we are not surprised that somewhere in the world is designing connected stones, connected papers or connected scissors. Just read “The abuse of shocking headlines in IoT or how many stupid things will be connected ? “. To this end, we have arrived in Internet of Things (IoT).

But far from conforming us just connecting things, some enlightened like Elon Musk do not dream of electric sheep; they dream building human-computer hybrids. Elon Musk’s Neuralink company goal is to explore technology that can make direct connections between a human brain and a computer. Mr. Musk floated the idea that humans will need a boost from computer-assisted artificial intelligence, to remain competitive since our machines get smarter.

Facebook Engineer Asserts That Augmented Reality Will Replace Smartphones in 5 Years. Facebook’s uber-secretive Building 8 (B8). The division is currently working on a top-secret brain-computer interface (BCI) like Elon Musk’s Neuralink, but that BCI project …

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