From implantable devices like pacemakers and brain interfaces to smart wearables, humans are fast becoming more cybernetic than we might realize. Implanted devices tend to have higher fidelity and ...

As the body’s most external organ, skin is privileged for human-computer interfaces because it can be accessed non-invasively. Despite much progress on thin flexible devices that conform to skin for ...

Entrepreneur Husain (The Sentient Machine) paints a cautiously optimistic picture of an automated future in this accessible survey. Contending that cybernetics, or “the scientific study of control and ...

Cover of the BCL Report from 1966, Record Series 11/6/834, Box 3, University of Illinois Archives. The cover of the 1995 American Society for Cybernetics meeting, Box 119, Record Series 11/6/28, ...

Ubiquitous computing and context-aware technologies have fundamentally reshaped human–machine interactions by seamlessly integrating computational functionality into everyday environments. This ...

From genetic engineering to cybernetic enhancements, scientists and futurists explore how humans could eventually evolve—or design—themselves into entirely new species. This is the true, horrific ...