{"id":21477,"date":"2020-09-14T10:11:28","date_gmt":"2020-09-14T09:11:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.uk\/blog\/?p=21477"},"modified":"2020-09-14T10:14:49","modified_gmt":"2020-09-14T09:14:49","slug":"future-human-augmentation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.uk\/blog\/future-human-augmentation\/21477\/","title":{"rendered":"What does the future hold for human augmentation?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Recently Tesla and Space-X entrepreneur Elon Musk revealed a \u201cbrain-chip<\/a>\u201d which will hopefully allow paralysed people to walk and talk. He said, \u201c\u201dI think it\u2019s going to blow your minds \u2013 It\u2019s like a Fitbit in your skull with tiny wires.\u201d
\nThat brought the realisation to many people that human augmentation is fast approaching \u2013 often seen in science fiction films such as Ghost In The Shell, Chappie or Alita: Battle Angel, this futuristic technology is quickly becoming possible. In addition, whilst new developments in augmentation continue, new research from Kaspersky highlights the growing desire among people to become enhanced or augmented.<\/p>\n

Social media generation<\/h4>\n

But why has this rationale changed so rapidly? Experts think that social media and digital filters that most smart cameras and apps have created a \u201cmodification generation\u201d, which is normalising the idea of augmenting and changing our bodies. Indeed, around two-thirds of those who were asked, said they\u2019d be \u201chappy with augmenting their bodies\u201d.
\nIt\u2019s not all good news however, many people express concern that these new tools and augmentations could be hacked or attacked \u2013 indeed, 9 out of 10 people questions, felt they were concerned about the risk to the devices they attach to themselves being hacked \u2013 something that is a very real possibility if it\u2019s connected to the internet. Others are concerned that these new fancy tools will be the preserve of the rich and famous.<\/p>\n

So what lies ahead for humanity and augmentation? It\u2019s a tough question, with many moral and ethical roadblocks and hurdles \u2013 that is also something that a team of experts intend to discuss at this year\u2019s Kaspersky NEXT event.<\/p>\n

During the Great Human Augmentation Debate, Marco Preuss, David Jacoby from Kaspersky and special guests Zoltan Istvan<\/a> and Julian Savulescu<\/a> will examine these questions as well as what lies ahead for human augmentation. Follow the event on Twitter with #KNEXT20<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Human augmentation, once the preserve of science fiction is quickly entering normal life \u2013 how will this change us? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":437,"featured_media":21478,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1622,2026],"tags":[452,43,709,529],"class_list":{"0":"post-21477","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"category-privacy","9":"category-threats","10":"tag-podcast","11":"tag-privacy","12":"tag-research","13":"tag-threats"},"hreflang":[{"hreflang":"en-gb","url":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.uk\/blog\/future-human-augmentation\/21477\/"},{"hreflang":"es","url":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.es\/blog\/future-human-augmentation\/23840\/"},{"hreflang":"it","url":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.it\/blog\/future-human-augmentation\/22791\/"},{"hreflang":"fr","url":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.fr\/blog\/future-human-augmentation\/15651\/"},{"hreflang":"de","url":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.de\/blog\/future-human-augmentation\/25092\/"}],"acf":[],"banners":"","maintag":{"url":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.uk\/blog\/tag\/research\/","name":"research"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/437"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21477"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21483,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21477\/revisions\/21483"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}