The Wetware Frontier: Augmenting The Human Body
summary
Claims rapid rise in implants, exoskeletons and gene editing with concrete examples: 60 conference chip implants, exobionics exoskeleton trials, Open Bionics prosthetic arms and 13 billion vaccine doses deployed for COVID. Biology tools are now wetwear frontier codeable via cheap sequencing and crisper gene edits, while brain interfaces like neuralink run tens to low hundreds of channels against 86 billion neurons, so neural control remains experimental not solved.
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chapters (14)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:03Wetware frontier and biohacking
- 3:56Human enhancement overview
- 5:22Pharmaceutical enhancements
- 8:16Genetic enhancement and CRISPR
- 11:08Digital biology and pandemics
- 13:562015 gene editing summit
- 17:47Cybernetic enhancements
- 25:11Why enhancement matters
- 27:18Evolutionary limitations
- 31:11Future enhancement directions
- 33:42Ethics and cyborg rights
- 36:35Proactionary vs precautionary
- 38:27Summary and future potential
