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hello Internet welcome to game theory
the show that artificially augments your
mind every week I know this may stun a
lot of you but I like smart games what
at this point that's about as surprising
as saying tingle from The Legend of
Zelda series isn't exactly what you
would call straight I mean when your
breakout titles are color-changing
tingles love balloon trip you can just
stop pretending
anyway this love of brain stimulation
means that I get all giddy inside when I
spot a smart shooter on the horizon
especially when it's the sequel to PC
gamers best PC game of all time we're
talking Deus Ex Human Revolution for
those of you unfamiliar with the
original if Borderlands and Bioshock had
a kid who liked cyberpunk and had an
affinity for tinfoil hats that would be
Deus Ex a futuristic RPG shooter with
plasmid like upgrades and a plot
straight out of a Dan Brown novel but
where the original was set in 2050 to
human Revolution is a prequel story
taking place in 2027 meaning that the
nanotechnology that gave you superhuman
like powers in the original hasn't been
developed yet replaced instead by more
primitive biomechanical enhancements
human robot hybrids or in other words
cyborgs so the question posed to us
today is this 16 years from now in 2027
will biomechanical technology have come
far enough to enable our own human
Revolution let's find out like its
predecessor human revolutions
augmentations apply to specific body
parts ranging from the eyes and cranium
to the arms legs torso and skin for
example one upgrade for the eyes allows
you to see through walls which happens
to be useful both in combat situations
and outside the girls locker room ah
yeah that's creepy and yes though we do
indeed have the technology to see
through walls it won't be incorporated
into the body anytime soon
however that's not to say that the eye
hasn't been receiving a bionic upgrade
for example check out rob spence AKA
Eyeborg
this documentary film
lost his right eye as a child and has
since worked with a team of researchers
to create a false eye fitted with a tiny
wireless camera that allows him to film
everything he sees during the day and
then download it onto a computer at
night the eye is also equipped with a
glowing red light that sends a clear
message to people walking past him on
the street that message Hey I'm creepy
he's confident that in 10 years the
technology will be able to link into the
brain allowing the blind to see but
that's already starting to happen enter
the Argus 2 and similar projects that
are experimenting with cameras that
transmit visual information wirelessly
to electrode arrays implanted in the
back of the eye the electrical pulses
are transmitted to the brain via the
optic nerve resulting in very
rudimentary site but coolest of all
these meet Neil Harbison he was born
with a chroma topia a condition that
restricts him to seeing the world in
black and white however with the help of
an inventor friend he's now able to see
colors by hearing them that device on
his head is also named the Eyeborg Hey
I may use bad puns but at least they're
mostly original like sound light is also
a series of wavelengths Neil's Eyeborg
is able to slow down those wavelengths
from the visible spectrum into the
audible range red which has a lower
frequency in the color spectrum becomes
one of the lowest pitches violet which
is a much higher frequency of light
becomes a higher pitch of sound however
this also works in Reverse with normal
everyday sounds having a color in his
mind
for example Neil perceives the hum of
his vacuum cleaner as red and the white
noise of Madrid as a city as part
sky-blue and part cream moving on
you've heard of thumb drives but how
about a ring finger drive in human
revolution one set of cranial
augmentations enhances your characters
ability to hack into turrets computers
keypads and alarm systems but why use
your brain to hack when you can let your
fingers do the talking like this
finished programmer who after losing his
ring finger in a 2009 motorcycle
accident had a two gigabyte USB Drive
installed in his prosthesis haha that's
one way to improve your med
but seriously is keeping it on your
keychain really that hard
and only two gigs it's about time he
upgrade his finger don't you think so we
have a mechanical finger but how about a
whole arm arm enhancements in dave's ex
offer a range of awesome skills
superhuman strength reducing weapon
recoil and my personal favorite the
ability to break through walls like cool
ins big mad oh yeah
even though real-life Bionic arms may
not be able to give you abnormal
strength or mascot like wall shattering
powers they're still making a huge
impact take for instance the eye limb
the latest in Bionic arms and the latest
to rip off apples product naming system
it features the first fully articulating
prosthetic hand with five independent
mechanical fingers that are able to
mimic a normal grip and it's all
controlled by two contacts sitting on
the skin that are able to read the
wearer's muscle activity just think
about moving your hand and it reacts the
island might not be able to move fast
enough to play the piano like in this
day use X ad but what it lacks in speed
it makes up for in 360 degree rotation
however if you want someone who is truly
a modern-day bionic man look no further
than Jesse Sullivan a former power line
worker who in 2001 was electrocuted so
severely that both his arms had to be
amputated
since then the Research Institute of
Chicago has relocated for nerves from
Jesse's shoulder to his chest where
they're now able to signal the fine
movements of the arms and hand like the
island just thinking about the movement
causes slight muscle contractions which
are translated as mechanical movement in
the arms with two Bionic arms that
officially makes Jesse the first
real-life Jax circa Mortal Kombat 3 when
he actually started to become cool and
if there's a bionic arm that means
there's also a leg right absolutely in
the game upgrading your legs allows you
to run farther jump higher and move more
stealthily and it's kind of the same in
real life the newest wave of replacement
legs uses a series of sensors attached
to the ankle of the good leg to read the
user's current movement it then sends
this information to software housed in
the bionic leg which translates the
information in
a movement profile predicting the next
motion the mover desires and then
executing it with power at both the knee
and ankle joints for the first time
those with a false leg can have a normal
walking gait and the ability to climb
stairs naturally instead of having to
limp using a regular passive prosthesis
but as always we've saved the best for
last someone who has already begun the
real-life human revolution by
controlling electronics with his mind
in 2002 Kevin Warwick at Reading
University in England implanted a
silicon chip into the nerves of his arm
he was then hooked into a computer which
read the signals traveling from his
brain to his arm translating these as
radio waves this eventually gave him the
ability to control an electric
wheelchair and lights with just his
brain signals he was like a human
clapper he could also hook his brain up
to the Internet already a weird thing to
be saying where he was able to get a
robotic hand 5,000 kilometers away to
copy his own hands movement but for his
most important experiment his wife also
had a chip installed it sure takes a
special kind of woman anyway the two
were hooked up via the internet and when
she moved her hand he was able to feel
impulses going through his own body and
vice versa they were actually
communicating through just their
thoughts in a very rudimentary form of
telepathy now that's progress which
brings us back to our initial question
will we be living out our own deus ex in
16 years in a way we already are a
central point in the game's story is the
struggle between those wanting to stay
purely human and those improving on
humanity's design through mechanical
enhancements and even though Kevin
Warwick guesses that in 30 years
everyone will have a chip in their brain
his work has already come under fire I
think the game is right this issue will
come to a head one day
maybe not as soon as 16 years but
definitely sooner than we think so the
best I can say is this play the game
experience the future and decide which
side you're going to be on I look
forward to seeing your discussions in
the comments but hey it's just a theory
a gay theory thanks for watching
one win
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