What is Cyberpunk?

Cyberpunk is a genre of Sci-fi invented by Bruce Bethke in 1986. It shows a decline in human culture while technology is on its pick. Modern innovations are becoming easy to get, which leads to their abuse. The government is corrupt and does not care about minorities or the social life level of citizens. Usually, the main hero of the stories are marginals: cyborgs, or hackers who oppose injustice. Cyberpunk as a genre appeared as a reaction to futuristic utopias, which were popular at the beginning of the 19th century. The leading popularizer of cyberpunk was Mal Gibson, known for his works: « Dune,» «Neuromant,» etc.

Cyberpunk observes conflicts between AI and humans, Humans and corporations, and Privacy and Private in the technology world.

How real is cybernization?

Every day millions of people raise their heads into the sky with a dream of changing their bodies and becoming more agile, more robust, better looking, and more sustainable as a result of human beings. All these dreams become closer to reality when digitalization is a part of the dialog. Though an overall understanding of it is possible, not many people can say how exactly we will fuse with technology. Fortunately, the article will try to answer the question. However, first of all, we need to understand what is cybornization. Cyborg - coming from cybernetic and organic. Means a fusion of both. Technology is applied to an organism to restore or enhance its functions. Such technology can be implanted in organs or wearable technology as an exoskeleton. Synonyms - augmented human.

Unfortunately, today most of the implants for invalid or other disabled individuals are far from being called efficient or capable of enhancing human abilities, though who knows how it would change in a few years. One of the breakthroughs is a prototype design by Neurolink.

The sensor can be demonstrated to microwires and micro cheap with 16 384 neuro waves receivers, allowing multifunctionality.

The stationary base is another part of Neurolink’s device. It is a computer to host AI which decodes neuro activities into commands for the PC. It also catches your thinking patterns to allow better and faster control over established orders. To control the PC, Neurolink proposes a cognitive keyboard and cursor. The AI is currently learning how to detect thinking patterns for writing letters. Also, the computer is quite effective in detecting cursor control. In other words, Neurolink developed a device to work with computer interfaces by just using your neuro waves. Their progress and all technologies were tried on six baboon monkeys which allows us to emulate its efficiency in humans.

Neurolink- American neurotechnological company founded by Elon Musk, planning to develop and manufacture implantable neurocomputer interfaces. The company is developing an augment to help paralyzed people using computers. Their goal is to create the most efficient communication between man and machine. They developed sensors that can catch electronic impulses transmitted by neurons in the human brain. Currently, the development team can create a robot to insert sensors, which are microwires, in brain safety. They also found an efficient way ( 3 points) to read neuro waves and make a computer prototype to decode them. The device can be separated into two parts: a sensor and a stationary base connected by Bluetooth. They senreceiveeive a river of your brain signals; it will be applied or replace a part of your skull. Sensors can be charged wirelessly; in two years of development, creators achieved minimum defense in powering efficiency between turned-on and turned-off devices. The sensor is also safe. The temperature of a machine is between 36-38 degrees which makes it safe for a human brain.

Neurolink shows the possibility of working with the neuron system of humans by catching its signals. Still, the founder of the company Elon Mask talks about turning this algorithm to allow us to electronic code signals from a device to transfer to bain’s neuron system to allow even more abilities. Maybe one day, we could implement artificial eyes in a man.

So, how close is cyberization? To answer that question, I would interpret Elon Mask’s words in his interview with Joe Rogan; those who use smartphones are cyborgs already.