The following is a very interesting survey results conducted by Zogby International
For the full coverage on the survey results, please visit Cyborg Status – Forbes.com (August 5th, 2009).

–If you could have the Internet wired directly into your brain, would you do so?
Yes: 13%
No: 82%
Not sure: 5%.
(We asked the same question in October 2007, and found 11% said yes.)
–Would you agree to have a computer chip implanted in your brain if it would make you immune to disease?
Yes: 25%
No: 54%
Not sure: 21%
–Would you agree to have a computer …

The Agenda with Steve Paikin (broadcasted by TVO) covered a special issue filmed at the Perimeter Institute, Waterloo, Ontario - I can’t believe they filmed it so close to where I did my undergrad (University of Waterloo).
The show frames the discussion around the question “How will robotics change our lives and our evolution?”, talks about what is currently considered ‘feasible’ in robotics and what it means to our future lives.
Guest speakers are (excepts from TVO below), and embed of the video is also provided for you below:
Michael Belfiore is a writer …

Last post for today.
Unfortunately, or fortunately?, this post is also relevant to the theme of military robotics.  The video is self explanatory, and explains how the beetle is remotely controlled via human – and of course Pentagon seems to be behind this kind of research. There has been similar research done on rats and dolphins, and UBC’s yourViews survey on roboethics covered the topic as well. If you haven’t taken the survey, please visit http://www.yourviews.ubc.ca/ to take it.
As you will see when taking the survey, there are some interesting reasons why …