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Captain Cyborg Is Back! Kevin Warwick Predicts the Future
richi writes "Kevin Warwick: His name raises extremes of opinion. For more than a decade, this highly controversial cybernetics professor has been making waves. His high-profile experiments — and even higher-profile claim that he's the first living cyborg — earned him column inches and unflattering nicknames. In this Forbes interview,
'Captain Cyborg' talks about exploding motorcycles, wireless power, and fish and chips."
If the good captain is back in the public eye, it probably means he had a new book to promote.
For anyone interested in being 'the kind of cyborg'* this guy was, it's way too easy.
1 - Put your RFID-based travel pass in your glove
2 - Open ticket barriers by waving your hand at the sensor
(*Other options: Jedi knight, wizard, the media's idea of Kevin Mitnick)
Soooo.... He's a political mover and shaker that can get public funds funneled to his department to give his underlings a kooshier life while they... do whatever it is they do. Presumably they're doing something more important and beneficial to society than those poor shlubs in the psychology department who are still in the drafty WWII-era building.
You know what would justify an "upswing in forturne" for that department? Actually doing some science, graduating students that go onto do impressive things in their field, publishing meaningful papers, and bringing glory to the school for all the awesome shit they do. The bit where the professor gets in the news and you get a swanky building are supposed to come after that, not before.