“We accept pain as a price of doing business, even if it is just for aesthetic purposes. You want to put a magnet in your finger, a doctor will ask you why; a mod artist will ask when you can start.” ...

When we hear of human augmentation, it’s easy to picture something out of a sci-fi movie. But actually, we interact with human augmentation devices and capabilities on a day-to-day basis without it ...

We all know about Dick Cheney’s pacemaker, people who have insulin pumps, DARPA’s full body exoskeleton, and the controversy surrounding the Olympic “Blade Runner’s” artificial legs as if he were The ...

Gartner unveiled its emerging technologies outlook for technologies we'll see in more than 10 years and it's a landscape filled with robots, human augmentation and collective intelligence. Jackie Fenn ...

The study shows that for decades automation has been adopted primarily to streamline structured and repetitive work. In sectors such as accounting, logistics, insurance and back-office administration, ...

At the heart of AI is the goal of elevating human potential. When technology manages mundane or repetitive tasks, we are free to focus on creativity, collaboration, and decision-making. By offloading ...

Human augmentation may be a case of life imitating art, but in the near future game developers like Eidos Montreal may be looking to reality -- not imagination -- to inspire storylines for future Deus ...

LONDON – Nearly two-thirds of people in leading Western European countries would consider augmenting the human body with technology to improve their lives, mostly to improve health, according to ...