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media type="custom" key="7211417" []# Documentary Review on Human v2.0

** 1: Credits ** Title: Human v2.0 Year: 24 October 2006 Genre: Documentary on the future probability of transferring human intelligence into machines by 2029. Producers: British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) Narrator: Susannah Harker Written & Produced by James Van Der Pool Music/Soundtrack: Soundtrack from Harry Potter! Main Actors: Scientists (mainly neuroscientists) from all over the world discussing their work on decoding the human brain.

Brief summary: The story of how Biology and Technology will combine to create a new version of humans, a version 2.0 where human minds can be stored in machines by the year 2029. Some people are working at making this come true, while others fear the possibilities. Both parties believe this day is inevitable. Computers will soon equal the power of the human brain. When this happens, we will be able to change the very nature of who we are. this moment in time is called the 'technological singularity'. People all over the world have been trying to understand the human brain for centuries and are getting closer to that reality every day. The documentary occurs in present day with references to prior experiments and future advancements. Most of the people interviewed are world class scientists from many different cultures whose work is helping to advance the understanding of the human brain and the developments of computers surpassing human intelligence. This narrated documentary is based on informative interviews and intelligent speculation on the future of man and technology.
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**3. Characters** (I did not give a physical description of the characters as I felt is was not relevant to the documentary) __Jose Delgado__, is a pioneering neuroscientist. Jose was born in 1915 in Ronda, Spain. He received a Doctor of Medicine degree from the University of Madrid just prior to the Spanish Civil War. Delgado served as a medical corpsman and after the war, had to repeat his MD degree. He completed a Ph.D in Madrid. Delgado joined the physiology department at Yale in 1950 then, in 1974, he returned to Spain to organize a new medical school. In 1964, Jose Delgado conducted an experiment in Spain where he placed a //stimoceiver// in a bull and when the bull charged him, he pressed a remote control button which caused the bull to stop it's charge, Jose claimed he had caused the bull to lose its aggressive behavior. Delgado was attempting to understand the mechanics of our minds by studying the electrical signals that the brain transmits and receives. __Gordon Moore__, Co-Founder and Chairman of the computer chip manufacturer, Intel Corporation. He was also the author of Moore's Law. Moore was born January 3, 1929 in San Francisco, California. He received a B.S degree in Chemistry from U of C in Berkeley in 1950 and a Ph.D in Chemistry with a minor in Physics from Caltech in 1954. Gordon co-founded Intel Corporation in 1968 and has retired with a net worth of 3.7 billion US$ (2008). Gordon noticed that every year, the power of computers doubled. He did not see this as changing anytime in the future - this is known as Moore's Law. __Ray Kurtzweil__, born Feb. 12, 1948 in Queens, New York. He is an author, entrepreneur, scientist and futurist. He is involved in the fields of speech recognition, text-to-speech synthesis and optical character recognition. He is also the author of books on artificial intelligence, transhumanism, the technological singularity and futurism. Ray Kurtzweil believes that 25 years from now, we will fully understand the human brain and will have both the hardware and the software to recreate human intelligence in a machine. He believes we can have immortality by transferring our intelligence into machines. Dr. John Chapin, Suny Downstate Medical Centre. Chapin used rats to study brain behavior. He connected electrodes to a rat's whiskers, thus enabling him to control the direction of the rat's movements. Professor Miguel Nicolelis, born in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Neuroscientist. Studies the brains of monkeys and eavesdrops on their thoughts. Nicolelis used monkeys to study brain behavior. He mapped the monkey's brain signals and then transferred that knowledge to the computer to imitate the monkey's arm movements with a robotic arm. Eventually, the monkey figured out that it didn't need to actually move it's arm to transfer the knowledge, it just needed to think about moving it's arm! Eric Ramsey, paralysed in a car crash at age 16. He still has feeling everywhere in his body but cannot move or speak. He has locked-in syndrome. Dr. Philip Kennedy, Neurologist. Kennedy is trying to help paraplegic Eric Ramsey by connecting a computer to Eric's brain, he can restore Eric's speech by having the computer read Eric's speech 'thoughts'. Professor Hugo de Garis, born in 1947 in Syndey, Australia. He is a researcher in artificial intelligence. de Garis believes we will bring about our own destruction by creating machines smarter than humans. Professor Henry Markram, Brain Mind Institute, Lausanne, Switzerland. Working on a project to decode the entire human brain. He is trying to reproduce a rat brain in a machine. Professor Seth. Lloyd, Mechanical Engineering __Quantum computers__: ( kwɒntəm [|kəm pyutər] ) a computer that makes direct use of the quantum state of electrons, to perform operations on data. Quantum computers are different from traditional computers based on transistors. //Quantum computers will be used in the future and will replace transistor computers.// __Technological Singularity__: (ˌtek.nəˈlɒdʒ.ɪ.kəl ˌsɪŋ.gjʊˈlær.ɪ.ti) the moment in time when computer intelligence matches human intelligence. //The Technological Singularity is inevitable in the future because of the advances in technology and Moore's Law.// __Stimoceiver__//:// a radio which joined a stimulator of brain waves with a receiver which monitored [|E.E.G.] waves and sent them back on separate radio channels. This allowed the subject of the experiment full freedom of movement while allowing the experimenter to control the experiment. //A stimoceiver is used to control motor function in rats.// __Futurist__: (ˈfjuː.tʃər.ɪst )scientist whose specialty is attempting to systematically predict the future of human society or life on earth in general. //Futurists have predicted that by 2029, we will have reached Technological Singularity.// __Transhumanism__: (træns-hjuː.mə.nɪ.zəm)a movement supporting the use of science and technology to improve human mental and physical characteristics. //Transhumanism has already saved many lives with the use of artificial hearts and other vital organs.// __Moore's Law__: that the number of components in integrated circuits had doubled every year from the invention of the integrated circuit in 1958 until 1965 and Gordon Moore predicted that the trend would continue until 2015 or later. //Because of Moore's Law, we will someday have computers that are more intelligent than humans.// __Locked-in Syndrome__: is a condition in which a patient is aware and awake but cannot move or communicate due to complete paralysis of nearly all voluntary muscles in the body except for the eyes. //People that suffer from a complete lack of movement (except for their eyes) are said to have locked-in syndrome.// __Artilects__: a shortened form of artificial intellects. //Artilects will one day become a reality.// Computers will one day be as smart as humans. This is not speculation, it is fact based on Moore's Law. We will one day be able to transfer and/or store our memories and our intelligence into computers. We will one day fully understand the human brain and how it works. This will allow us to change the very nature of human beings. This can be a positive or a negative technological advancement. It could enable us to live indefinitely in machines or keep us alive by replacing/repairing defective parts. It could also lead to our destruction if machines become more intelligent than humans and decide that we are no longer valuable. The film was used to inform us of the possibilities in the future. Countless lives have already been saved because of advancements in technology enabling us to create artificial organs and machines to keep us alive. This film reminds me of the Terminator Series on TV and the Terminator Movies. Even though technological advancements have been good so far, it can also lead to our ultimate extinction. If we create technology that is smarter than we are, we will no longer be able to predict the machine's behavior. It is possible that the machines could in fact, determine that we are no longer necessary for their survival and dispose of us in any way they see fit. A very detailed analysis of an interesting "cautionary tale". 24/24
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Fifty People One Question Last Minutes With Oden
 * interesting music-went with the emotions
 * good question-pulled reader into the story because you wanted to know what they were talking about
 * interesting answers and people
 * responses of one subject cut into the answers of another subjects
 * switched back and forth between people
 * everyone was in the same place but the camera changed it's views
 * different emotions
 * moved from concrete answers to imaginative answers