Engineers building artificial intelligence, such as image-recognition apps for smartphones, are now giving their software the ability to ask humans for help. Indeed, even the fantasy of intelligent brain-implants may become real: researchers are devising electronics to revive lost memories (see “ Rat memory restored by installing replay electronics“).īut let’s not forget that machines are increasingly reaching out to us for help too.
The idea proved prescient – think hearing aids and pacemakers, for example. Other writers have imagined a similar future, albeit with less emphasis on facial hair. In an 1839 short story, he told the tale of a wounded war veteran whose body was rebuilt using synthetic parts, including the “handsomest pair of whiskers under the sun”. THE idea of the cyborg dates back as least as far as Edgar Allen Poe.
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