Archived webcasts from the MIT Media Lab H2.0 symposium are available online. Under a theme of “new minds, new bodies, new identities,” the one-day event explored, “how today’s—and tomorrow’s—advances will seamlessly interact with humans, giving us a glimpse into a future where all humans will integrate with technology to heighten our cognition, emotional acuity, perception, and physical capabilities.”
Discussions from the morning session include:
- Deb Roy, “Memory Augmentation: Extending our Sense of Self”
- Rosalind W. Picard, “Technology-Sense and People-Sensibility”
- Cynthia Breazeal, “The Next Best Thing to Being There. Increasing the Emotional Bandwidth of Mediated Communication Using Robotic Avatars”
- Douglas H. Smith, “The Brain is the Client: Designing a Back Door into the Nervous System”
- John Donoghue, “New Successes in Direct Brain/Neural Interface Design”
…and from the afternoon:
- Hugh Herr, “New Horizons in Orthotics and Prosthetics: Merging Bodies and Machines”
- Tod Machover, “Enabling Expression: Music as Ultimate Human Interface”