Here from Tom Scott's Channel. Thank you for giving KZread viewers something contructive and educational to watch.

"We might be cyborgs, just based' -Uno McDostres

I mean we already have to pay for augmentations, I wear glasses that I have to pay for and it’s a lot of money, my brother needs hearing aids which are also incredibly expensive. And the sad thing is that these are just to get us close enough to a general standard of living, many things we have built for this world require that we be functioning at a certain standard and if you arnt capable you have to pay to reach it if you even can

Cybernetics is going to be huge in 10 years or sooner

@seriousZmij

3 жыл бұрын

Woo hoo! We are on a rollercoaster to technological singularity!

I came close to implanting magnets in my fingertips a few years ago, but the amount of pain involved and the fact that they couldn’t make them permanent yet made me rethink that plan. When we get plug-and-play cybernetics I will be on board 100%.

@TraceDominguez

4 жыл бұрын

I've thought about fingertip magnets too! Though not enough to actually consider it… 😮

@JM-us3fr

4 жыл бұрын

Just get a neodynium ring

@leomadero562

3 жыл бұрын

@@JM-us3fr that would almost negate the purpose, there are much much less sensory nerves around the ring area, and the large size of the ring would negate vibrations of ac current making it basically useless, let alone the fact that it is almost always moving, meaning your brain won't form a direct connection to the movement of the magnet to magnetic fields, just a ring moving on your finger

@user-qp3qj2jv6f

3 жыл бұрын

what's the purpose? feeling em fields? if so, why can't you just wear a tight glove with magnets?

What Jan is doing, must feel a whole lot like learning telekinesis. Really cool how the arm is not attached to her. I haven't thought about that scenario before. It would be cool to have big long robot arms that hang down from ceilings, and you connect your brain to it through radio waves (via a device like a phone or other computer), and then you can use this long arm to reach around the room and do whatever. Might as well get rid of my legs right now.

I love your videos, but man the series format is out of the roof. This is like the Netflix for nerds like myself haha. Amazing job Trace! Keep rocking it!

I remember hearing about that gentleman years ago, and seeing his camera peripheral. But that looks like the latest one from then. I expected it to be more upgraded by now. It's been at least a decade.

@Rabbit-the-One

4 жыл бұрын

Still the same haircut too I think 😅

@TraceDominguez

4 жыл бұрын

“There are some things in this world… that will never change.” - Morpheus

"Do you think music?" Guys, don't tell him

"The power of the brain, is in the brain" - Trace Dominguez 2020.

I saw that cyborg in D-News XD

@andie_pants

4 жыл бұрын

D-News? Never heard of it. :-P

@TraceDominguez

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, Neil is still the big name out there. not many people are working on plugging their wetwear into new hardware, instead people are trying to download information and create a new body from scratch! (Nuts, if you ask me!)

Idea for next series video. Superpowers and radioactivity. Is it possible for humans to absorb certain amounts of radioactivity and develop "superpowers"? What would the dangers be? Can we modify radioactivity to our benefit? Too futuristic? I don't know 🤷 we just talked about upgrading our brains!

how come you're not youtube famous anymore? I had to search specifically for you to find this video. Anyway I'm glad I found this I like your voice and face

Dude, my dreams are epic. I would *LOVE* to be able to save them & revisit them!

@Striker9

3 жыл бұрын

Man I would be scared to see some of mine lol

Whenever someone goes right to "like black mirror", you can tell they have only barely started to think about the implication of this tech. Black mirror is like, the baby steps of sci-fi hard science. I wouldn't mind hearing comparisons to things other than black mirror, since black mirror is the the generic pop music of hard sci-fi. People who don't care about sci-fi watch the show, and suddenly think they are the whiz of all things dark and futuristic.

@TraceDominguez

3 жыл бұрын

I saw black mirror - it used to be called the Outer Limits! Both are excellent, thought-provoking shows and the more people who try to understand Sci-Fi attempting to explore the philosophy and struggles of humanity, the better! I don’t watch Black Mirror, but I know millions more people watch it than do “hard” sci-fi. No reason to be jerky about it, there is enough audience for both, so I was merely signaling to those who know :)

I will replace as much of my body as I can if the tech is Advanced enough

@seriousZmij

3 жыл бұрын

I am definitely waiting on cybernetic beer belly.

If you add 0:00 as the first timestamp under chapters, the chapters will actually show in the video bar, in case you want to use this feature

@TraceDominguez

4 жыл бұрын

IS THAT WHAT I DID WRONG? Oh man thank you

I operate a fast clamshell crane, unloading coal and such. Yeah, the machinery is an extension of my hand the second push the start button.

This series made my day dude. Just work like this.

why so few views? This channel is criminally underrated

"only do X if you can afford it" I mean that's the entire point of Cyberpunk no? the dark future where society has fallen into this cavern of poor at the bottom who can only get bottom tier cyberwear if any cyberwear at all, and the rich on the cliff's edge looking down with the latest and greatest cyberwear that enhance their capabilities.

Man I'm glad I found you. I remember watching you on DNews religiously! All the stuff I'm into

Best way to handle it would to make sure all of the Software and Hardware NEEDS to be open source

🤯 i never even considered the ethics

I really enjoyed this series. It is well made, very interesting and informative. I look forward to watching more of the content you create. Well done.

Did they get BCI pins coated to prevent scaring around the pins? One proposal was conductive silicone. There are more creative ways around this; one is an array that uses sound instead of an array of pins. With a Piezoelectric array, you could combine methods like focusing sound and light. In fact, one method of BCI is a simple thinning of the skull that could be done just under the scalp no brain surgery at all. Infrared can already pass through the skull, but shorter wave lengths can pass by simply implanting a thin spot. It could be approached like a tooth implant, and allow shorter wavelengths of light for higher resolution scans of the brain in real time. It could have magnets that allow lasers outside the body to align to it. The electronics would all be outside the body to allow for better safety and upgrades. This would eliminate seizures and rejection of the devise. There was a TED talks about using inferred, and a hologram to reverse scattering of the light, but no update on that from anyone.

@TraceDominguez

4 жыл бұрын

Are you a bioengineer?! Cool! There are some of these in practice now (see earlier episodes), but some sound really fascinating.

@tmarti69

4 жыл бұрын

@@TraceDominguez Not a bioengineer, I just over analize things. kzread.info/dash/bejne/k6t1pqeuppjch7w.html

Wow this channel is underrated. Glad I found you!

Ooh that style of video is far better....!

I love this been waiting for this series love this guy

Got to learn a lot from this series, Thanks Trace 🤗♥️

@TraceDominguez

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Siddarth!

These were all so gooodd!!!

How about series on Covid? Btw, I saw people on the comments of a Seeker Video that people consider to be unscientific, propaganda using my favorite line from you, "There is a difference between causation and correlation." Love your videos, Sir!

Thank you so much for this amazing series Trace ❤️

Love the updated background lol

I graduated college in 1977 with a degree in Cybernetics - it's right there on the framed certficate - so the word DEFINITELY existed in 1973 when I filled out the form to apply for college. Definitely **NOT** in 1980.

I loved all of the series you did before you had your own channel seeker? Maybe d news? Anyway, a series on cryogenics and the wood frog would be interesting. If you know nothing about the wood frog, prepare to have your mind blown!

I think I'm with a lot of people, but with regards to phones and computers; these are my own devices, and the control the manufacturers have over them sets out a dangerous future for cyborgs. I do not want to be dismantled at the whim of some company or government branch.

great series!

Just drinking all this information up. I think I'm going to be going do an interesting rabbit whole for the next few day's researching all the information here.

@TraceDominguez

4 жыл бұрын

Have fun! Let us know how it goes

in my personal opinion, i think that in the next 20-40 years we will hit the singularity. and at that point all of these various problems can be solved.

i would absolutely love to be able to just think music, even just using my brain as a midi controller would be super cool. my hand coordination just isn't good enough to play piano lol ..and i have trouble memorizing notes lol

Love u trace. Keep up the awesome vids

@TraceDominguez

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!

I love both Blade Runner movies, but there is a lot left out in adaptation from the NOVEL... That ending tho, 🐐🐐🐐 (no spoilers)

I was hoping you were about to say "You heard that right, she's never seen Star Wars!"

All the best

This is really exciting content!

@TraceDominguez

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Posthumanism and cybernetic enhancements? ... Neal Asher, Polity agent. What a good read.

If you can control robotic arm, there is no reason you can't make virtual keyboard that you can control the same way. Just "imagine" place on keyboard and it types.

Transhumanism and cybernetics really bothers me. It always has for some reason. Then there's two things that i can't help myself to connect to that technology birthing itself into the world and i start to understand why i'm bothered. First is the end of Asimov's Fondation. (spoiler i guess, but if you are here, you may have already read the Old Testament of cyberpunk) . . . . How R. Daneel Olivaw, a robot, finaly transfer his consciousness in a Solarian, a species evolved from humans through 20 millenia of genetic engineering. It's facinating that the end game of Asimov work is the exact opposite of transhumanism btw. A robot transfering itself into an organic. Anyway, he does that so that he can still proceed overseing the big plan of seldon's Fondation through the use of psychohistory. How he mused about that nothing could prevent this, unless something unexpected and "different" came into play, letting it vaguely imply that solarian were so vastly different from human that it wouldn't be that easy. Or just aliens from other another galaxy. . . . . . Then the second thing bothering me that may still be looming over us. Or Not, we just don't know and we really don't want to know: The Great Filter. We don't need much as human being to kill off our fellow humans. Genocide did, do, and will still happen for the most trivial reasons. As a specie, we don't really value other sort lives. No need to elaborate much on that either just look how slaughterhouse work, it's not pretty. Then what happen when we add cybernetics to the lot ? When we create by ourselves a new augmented human race, one that's probably in the first place would be composed of the most wealthy and looking at which sort of human being are needed to win capitalism, not necessarely the most altruistic ones. Cybernetics really looks like something we do not have the wisdom/collective intelligence to process yet without creating something too good for the user not to use yet too costly to equally distribute to raise the specie as whole to the next step of evolution. Just like a sheep will never jump off a cliff but a herd will if there are wolves hunting a few of them. Cybernetic kind of look like that wolf trying to single out a few sheep to eat, the herd be damned. Judging that coldly, it's not necessarely "bad" for a new specie more advanced to emerge in a purely darwinian perspective. Yet i don't know why but i really believe that traveling through space absolutely need a specie with massive numbers of individual. Space is just to big to explore without billions of explorers. Factor into that the time needed even at the speed of light (if that is even possible to reach) and how colony ship would probably be needed, in the end it would be like sending out seedling for as many different future species evolving from whatever intelligent race that tried to explore space. However, if a divide emerge through cibernetics before an intelligent specie that could be a potential space wayfaring civilisation that can drasticaly reduce its number, a specie that is very selective by nature as augmentation aren't as easy to create as simply having two people reproduce and people having them would want them controled without so many people able to be as good as them, having so few number could be seen as a potential reason for the Great Filter. Another one could be that through cybernetics, the drive to get out there could be lost. Afteral you can augment reality so much before creating some sort of virtual reality that's equaly vast for you to explore. Anything is on the table really. Cybernetics and the singularity kind of come hands in hands. So yeah, tl;dr, i wouldn't mind upgrade my brain. Self improvement feel so good after all. Yet i'm not really sure we should. There's a lot of weird thing happening with the brain and the lack of metodical study on stuff like meditation and its effect on the brain. It's really like we are at a crossroad on a rainy, misty day and there's no way to know if it's not a dead end, not for you, but for those that come next.

Akira is good cyberpunk movie

How does the body react to unknown materials in the body? Does it accept it or get rid of it

@TraceDominguez

4 жыл бұрын

Just like any substance, the body will reject it over time. It can build up scar tissue around foreign objects, reducing effectiveness of implants and electrodes and potentially causing issues in the parts of the body where the implants are located.

@lukyrcer7244

4 жыл бұрын

@@TraceDominguez hey thanks for answering Maybe in the future our bodies will evolve to accept tech or is there any chance natural evolution takes over cause a lot of athletes have accomplished some amazing things

Congrats on getting in with Nebula! They got an Android app yet?

@TraceDominguez

4 жыл бұрын

We do !

Question: Isn't even something simple like a insulin pump body augmentation?

I'm a type 1 diabetic and have a CGM (Celluar Glucose Measurement) Implant in my arm. Its like a small subdermal pill shaped thing that sends its information to an above-skin transmitter I have taped above the the sensor, which in turn sends it to my phone via bluetooth. Do I qualify as a cyborg?

I'll take hand augmentation up on a heartbeat if it.meams my hands will have proper feeling again an fix my wrist an pain I have from a few accidents which messed me up, would rather that then an operation tbh

@TraceDominguez

3 жыл бұрын

💙💙💙 I hope we get there!

@PH-x

3 жыл бұрын

@@TraceDominguez metoo man metoo, it's only a matter a time really, hopefully were around to enjoy it too aye

It is ethical because all technology first goes to the government then the rich then the average Joe, market competition and profit is what drives innovation forward

What was that sci-fi movie... Repo Man? Where artificial organs are rented, and he comes and slices you open if you don't pay the rent? Call me cynical, but I can plausibly see prostheses and artificial organs going the way of cars and houses, obtained by renting, leasing, and mortgage.

@TraceDominguez

4 жыл бұрын

So crazy, right? Not out of the realm of possibility…

@cavv0667

4 жыл бұрын

No, there's "The Repo Man" w/ Emilio Estevez which is Not what you're looking for, and there is "Repo Men" w/ Jude Law... that's the one. Also, check out the film Freejack from '92.

I want to know if (when) the options are available, what body part would people enhance first.

@cavv0667

4 жыл бұрын

My immediate interface senses... hearing, seeing, smelling, tasting and feeling. I think seeing will be the tipping point for humanity... we believe what we see, and AR begs for enhanced vision.

@TraceDominguez

4 жыл бұрын

I think I'd want a prehensile tail. I'd just have to modify all the chairs in my house to fit my new appendage.

@Troupe_Master

3 жыл бұрын

I would want strong arms

When she said the goal was to restore the arm after you lose it I had to laugh, the endgame isn't simply replacement it's looking at the limits of the flesh and deciding to ignore them, you don't just decide it's enough once you've got a replacement limb that works as well as a flesh one and has only the functionality of a flesh one...

I've been debating with myself for years now if I should subscribe to Curiosity Stream. LegalEagle, Tech Altar, VSauce are some of the channels I frequent which advertised it. But I guess it's only fitting that I finally decided to join in support of Trace. Their then DNews (along with Animalist with Catie Wayne) was one, if not the first channel I subscribed to in KZread. I was poor in science. Sorry... "am" poor in science. But they made me feel there's a place for me in the science world, if not a proponent, then at least an audience to which they can show how wonderful science is and could be. And now that I'm a (relatively) new dad, I'll make sure my kid has access to this resource. More power to you, Trace. - end of essay.

@TraceDominguez

4 жыл бұрын

💙 I was/am poor in math. I wanted to be an engineer, but couldn't do the calculus. I failed it the first time I took it, and passed with a middling grade the second time. I decided maybe that bit wasn't for me! I still am fascinated by engineering, and the idea that we can make science into practical innovations, but rather than _doing_ it, I get to talk about it all day to anyone who will listen! Thanks for your essay, congratulations on new fatherhood! With as open and reflective an attitude as I get from your comment, you're going to be excellent. 🥰

God Almighty please take me home before this all comes to fruition, I’m happy just the way I am! Ameine

Hey trace weird question but, why do people in old photos and accurate paintings look so darn weird compared to modern humans even though they were anatomically the same?

@TraceDominguez

4 жыл бұрын

I'm intrigued -- can you explain more? Weird in what way? Paintings I can guess because they are interpretations by an artist, but do you have some examples of photos?

@hugeturd42

4 жыл бұрын

@@TraceDominguez I guess most of them are interpretations by the artist but often it just gives me an eerie sensation or that something is wrong, i just cant figure out what. I asked my friend and most of them agree there something fishy, but no one really knows what. romanticportraitsblog.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/jmw-turner-self-portrait.jpg

How does this nano particle looks

how am i not myself?

The fact that so many people seem to think that the concept of BCIs should be avoided on the basis that 'only some people might get them' bugs me. Like, just because not everyone will get it right away, it shouldn't be available at all? It seems like too groundbreaking an idea to pass up; the problem is with capitalism, not cyborgization ;)

Dont forget about people who dont want it

All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace I like to think (and the sooner the better!) of a cybernetic meadow where mammals and computers live together in mutually programming harmony like pure water touching clear sky. I like to think (right now, please!) of a cybernetic forest filled with pines and electronics where deer stroll peacefully past computers as if they were flowers with spinning blossoms. I like to think (it has to be!) of a cybernetic ecology where we are free of our labors and joined back to nature, returned to our mammal brothers and sisters, and all watched over by machines of loving grace. Richard Braughtigan, 1967

@andie_pants

4 жыл бұрын

I don't know why this poem came to mind, maybe the word cybernetic triggered it. But I've always liked its equally satirical yet hopeful 60s daydream of the future. :-)

@TraceDominguez

4 жыл бұрын

I like it ☺️

@fundemort

4 жыл бұрын

Lovely, until the stronger ones get bored.

free trials, DRM, IoT integrated brain which will make you brain dead if their company goes bankrupt... etc...

@Rabbit-the-One

4 жыл бұрын

What do you mean?

@pierreuntel1970

4 жыл бұрын

@@Rabbit-the-One typical computer software thingy

@TraceDominguez

4 жыл бұрын

NOPE nope nope… but probably something like that.

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that dude even sounds like he's a cyborg

9Then a third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, “If anyone worships the beast and his image, and receives his mark on his forehead or on his hand, 10he himself shall also drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out full strength into the cup of His indignation. He shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels and in the presence of the Lamb. 11And the smoke of their torment ascends forever and ever; and they have no rest day or night, who worship the beast and his image, and whoever receives the mark of his name.”Revelation 14