11 Cyborg Body
11.1 Introduction
The first candidates to take an IT course had to write programs for a large machine with a newfound appreciation for power and a habit for reading punched cards. A lot has changed since then. Today, wireless iPhone with the strength of the Cray supercomputer are in everyone’s possession. More than 100,000 people have electrons in their brains that control tremors and other signs of deteriorating neurological disorder. However, in future prosthesis, implantable chips and brain-computer interfaces will go further than curing disease—as remarkable as such applications of technologies are—or to provide an online search platform for students. Indeed, neuroscientists, artificial intelligence, ...
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