Debate: Would you–or should you–undergo medical treatments to improve your body and mind and your chances of employment?

By SharpBrains | August 18, 2017

The future of work is med­ical­ly enhanced ‘elite super-work­ers,’ report says (Lad­ders): “In the future, we will be com­pet­ing against med­i­cal­­ly-enhanced work­ers who can work longer and hard­er than us. Arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence will make it eas­i­er to mon­i­tor our every move in the office. This may sound like sci­ence fic­tion, but it’s a like­ly reality,…

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Harnessing neurotech for actual Human Enhancement — i.e., how to prevent ‘Frankenstein’ Brains

By SharpBrains | August 7, 2017

___ The Neu­rotech Rev­o­lu­tion Could Lead To ‘Franken­stein’ Brains. Here’s How We Avoid It (Forbes): “Year 2030, your col­lege-age daugh­ter, who has nor­mal hear­ing, has been pound­ing on you to get the lat­est hear­ing aid that allows one to can­cel out noise on demand, ampli­fy select­ed ambi­ent con­ver­sa­tions at will, and can eas­i­ly con­nect to…

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Five reasons the future of brain enhancement is digital, pervasive and (hopefully) bright

By SharpBrains | May 1, 2017

— Elon Musk just detailed his ambi­tious plans for a new brain-com­put­er inter­face plat­form. Superath­lete Tom Brady revealed his “brain resilien­cy pro­gramme” to increase his ath­let­ic edge. Elite US mil­i­tary units are test­ing brain stim­u­la­tion head­sets to stim­u­late neu­ro­plas­tic­i­ty and boost men­tal and phys­i­cal per­for­mance. And they are not the only ones inno­vat­ing at the…

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Next: Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) meet brain scanning and human enhancement

By SharpBrains | April 5, 2017

— Face­book, Apple and the Com­ing Aug­ment­ed Real­i­ty Land Grab (Vari­ety): “Two new reports sug­gest that two of Sil­i­con Valley’s biggest com­pa­nies are secret­ly work­ing on aug­ment­ed real­i­ty (AR) tech­nol­o­gy. It may take some time before Apple is going to reveal its efforts in the space, but Face­book may give us a glance at its…

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New Global Future Councils by the World Economic Forum: Shaping the present and future via cross-sector collaborations

By SharpBrains | September 22, 2016

Glob­al Future Coun­cils: A Knowl­edge Net­work for the Fourth Indus­tri­al Rev­o­lu­tion (press release): “The World Eco­nom­ic Forum today con­venes the Net­work of Glob­al Future Coun­cils, a com­mu­ni­ty of world-lead­­ing experts and inno­va­tors to pro­vide bold visions for solv­ing crit­i­cal glob­al, region­al and indus­try chal­lenges… The net­work will com­prise more than 800 inno­va­tors (Edi­tor’s Note: includ­ing our…

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Shaping the Future of Human Enhancement

By Alvaro Fernandez | July 18, 2016

—– Dear Sharp­Brains com­mu­ni­ty, It is an hon­or to share that I’ve been asked to join the Coun­cil on the Future of Human Enhance­ment, orga­nized by the World Eco­nom­ic Forum, for its 2016–2018 term. It will be my plea­sure to 

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