Week 4 Blog Assignment

Bryce Martin-Grud

Desma 9

4/21/22


Warwicks Robo Chips

 During this weeks readings and ideas I found to be Kevin Warwicks' experiment and ideas the most interesting. So basically what Warwick was trying too was to become one with the computer. To start, he had to put a silicon chip into his arm.

His goal was to have the chip and the computer connected through radio signals and networks of antennas to then have it respond to his actions. This was something that has never been done before and something that could create a change in technology and how we can do things. For example, Alexa the little circle thing that you can talk to and it will do play music or order things to your house just by you talking to it. 


That is on the same basic idea as this. Although you're talking, with the chip Warwicks goal was to just walk and not really have to do anything. His experiment went great and the chip was shutting off lights and opening doors just as he would approach them. This is experiment just proved how the principles of cybernetics could preform real life applications and make life easier for people.



Sources

Staff, WIRED. “Cyborg 1.0.” Wired, Conde Nast, 1 Feb. 2000, https://www.wired.com/2000/02/warwick/. 

“Professor Has World's First Silicon Chip Implant.” The Independent, Independent Digital News and Media, 25 Aug. 1998, https://www.independent.co.uk/news/professor-has-world-s-first-silicon-chip-implant-1174101.html. 

Istvan, Zoltan. “A Chip in My Hand Unlocks My House. Why Does That Scare People?” The New York Times, The New York Times, 21 May 2019, https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/21/opinion/chip-technology-implant.html. 


Comments

  1. Geovany MartinApril 24, 2022 at 9:18 PM

    Kevin Warwick's experiment work is very interesting and will undeniably prove to be very serviceable in the future. His chip will be able to help people that are handicapped or have very damaged nervous systems. So even though this robotic chip is an artistic science project , it will also prove to a treatment to help certain people function better.

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  2. AnonymousMay 25, 2023 at 7:12 PM

    Good afternoon Bryce, i see what you did with the Kevin Warmick's experiment and how you turned it into something that was very interesting and entertaining. His chip and what he is working on will truly help people in the future and help people truly of need that needs the helping as in handicapped and disabled in certain areas. This treatment will truly be something that will be something we use in the future to cure and help people live a better life.

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  3. Kathryne_RomoDESMA9July 7, 2023 at 4:49 AM

    I think its great that you focused primarily on Kevin Warwick's experiment. I think he had a great idea that could be advanced to be much more. He was successful and was onto something revolutionary. This definitely did connect med-tech to art and daily life.

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