Comments on: The Third Thumb Project – Setting the Stage for Next Generation Humans https://futuristspeaker.com/artificial-intelligence/the-third-thumb-project-setting-the-stage-for-next-generation-humans/ Thomas Frey Google's Top Rated Futurist Speaker Thu, 27 May 2021 21:37:06 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.7 By: stefan Drew https://futuristspeaker.com/artificial-intelligence/the-third-thumb-project-setting-the-stage-for-next-generation-humans/#comment-59164 Thu, 27 May 2021 21:37:06 +0000 https://futuristspeaker.flywheelsites.com/?p=35560#comment-59164 I think we started robotcising ourselves generation ago. An example would be when we moved beyond simple tools to becoming one with the tool. The forklift truck is such a “worn” tool. A man on a forklift has vastly enhanced powers and barely thinks to operate the tool, it’s all intuitive and just happens with barely a thought.

You might say I’m trivialising this and it’s not the same but isn’t that just semantics. What’s the difference between having an extra thumb, extra legs or a set of wheels and a few hydraulic pipes?

Robotcising is just a fancy name for doing something similar to that we did when we first used a lever.

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