The Gates of Hell

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Professor Kevin Warwick from the University of Reading in the UK is a scientist that not only houses a chip in his skin but also a lot of nerve, pluck, arteries of gushing ideas, veins of maverick thoughts and much more.

In August 1998 he got a surgically implanted silicon chip transponder in his forearm and then in March 2002 was ready for another one. This time it was a hundred electrode array into the median nerve fibers of the left arm. Professor Kevin Warwick, born in Coventry, UK got his first degree at Aston University, followed by a PhD and a research post at Imperial College, London and subsequently held positions at the Oxford, Newcastle, and Warwick universities before being offered the Chair at Reading. His research interests include robotics and cybernetics in particular apart from areas like artificial intelligence, control, and biomedical engineering. His list of laurels includes higher doctorates (DScs) by Imperial College and the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, The Future of Health Technology Award from MIT USA, the IEE Achievement Medal, a place etched in 1999 and 2002 Guiness Book of Records, and so on.

Its not surprising that Gillian Anderson of X-Files fame calls him Britains leading prophet of the robot Age. In this exclusive interview with CyberMedia News, Kevin talks without mincing any words or chips, on various issues around the realm of cybernetics, cyborgs, human vs machines, words vs signals, ethics, evolution, and science. Excerpts

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