Great Throughts Treasury

"Life will be much more exciting when we stop creating applications for mobile phones and we start creating applications for our own body."

"If we extend our senses, we will consequently extend our knowledge."

"Color is everywhere, so everything has changed. I still can't see color, but I can perceive it. I can experience it in a way that allows me to be a part of this reality, which I was excluded from before. Thanks to the eyeborg, I've made a career by combining music and art."

"If we extend our senses, then, consequently, we will extend our knowledge. It's really very basic."

"It's strange that we create tech and then we apply it to machines, when we could apply it to ourselves. Cars can now detect if something is behind them, but we don't have this ability. Why are we applying such a simple sense to a car when we could apply it to ourselves?"

"Kids are really inspired to not just apply senses to robots and machines, but to try them on themselves."

"Technology is made by humans so if we modify our body with human creations, we become more human"

"The biggest challenge for cyborgs is to be socially accepted. Society needs to accept that there are people who wish to use technology as part of the body."

"The problem is not that I can?t see colors, the problem is that you can see them!"

"There's no legal protection for cyborgs. In 2010, I started the Cyborg Foundation to defend our rights. Cyborgs have been kicked out from several places because they are seen as a possible security threat. I've been kicked out from places such as Harrods, Casino Montecarlo, and many supermarkets."

"We need to get used to seeing humans with antennas sticking out of their heads."

"We should find inspiration in the senses that already exist and try to copy them and apply them to us. If we compare our senses to the senses of other animals and species that we don't have, we can get ideas for new abilities that we can adapt to humans by applying cybernetics to the body."

"When someone was pointing at the passport I was actually visualizing the passport. It was not only a sense of color, it was actually the object for me. So this is something new to me, to visualize things that are not in front of me and share someone else?s vision"