Abstract
Every so often, when some new scientific paper is published or new experiment revealed, the press pronounces the creation of the first bionic man—part human, part machine. Science fiction, they say, has become scientific reality; the age of cyborgs is finally here.
Keywords
- Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation
- Deep Brain Stimulation
- Essential Tremor
- Cochlear Implant
- Functional Electrical Stimulation
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Adam Keiper is the editor of The New Atlantis and a fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, DC. He can be reached at akeiper@thenewatlantis.com.
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Keiper, A. (2013). The Age of Neuroelectronics. In: Hays, S., Robert, J., Miller, C., Bennett, I. (eds) Nanotechnology, the Brain, and the Future. Yearbook of Nanotechnology in Society, vol 3. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1787-9_7
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