November 13th, 2004
Computer viruses could infect humans?
Kevin Warwick, professor of cybernetics at Reading University in England, warns that computer viruses could infect humans…
"We’re looking at software viruses and biological viruses becoming one and the same….The security problems (will) be much, much greater….For those of you that want to stay human…you’ll be a subspecies in the future."
According to Jo Best’s story on silicon.com, Warwick connected his body’s to the Internet and operated a mechanical arm in the United States. He didn’t publish the IP address of his arm….well, you know why. *
as being a subspecies in the future, on my flight to Taipei yesterday I saw the movie I Robot, based on an Isaac Asimov novel, in which robots with artificial intelligence get out of control. Many humans are already out of control, or in situations in which they are actors in someone else’s reality play, with native intelligence. It’s inevitable that mating humans with embedded technologies will have many good outcomes (health and well being) and some really bad ones…it’s a complex issue and there is no way avoid it.
What’s you take. Is the human/computer connection becoming too intimate?
