Neil Harbisson Quotes
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It's strange that we create tech and then we apply it to machines, when we could apply it to ourselves. Cars can now detect if something is behind them, but we don't have this ability. Why are we applying such a simple sense to a car when we could apply it to ourselves?
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We should find inspiration in the senses that already exist and try to copy them and apply them to us. If we compare our senses to the senses of other animals and species that we don't have, we can get ideas for new abilities that we can adapt to humans by applying cybernetics to the body.
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It's not the union between my head and the electronic eye what makes me feel 'cyborg', it's the union between the software and my brain.
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If we extend our senses, then, consequently, we will extend our knowledge. It's really very basic.
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We need to get used to seeing humans with antennas sticking out of their heads.
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Kids are really inspired to not just apply senses to robots and machines, but to try them on themselves.
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There's no legal protection for cyborgs. In 2010, I started the Cyborg Foundation to defend our rights. Cyborgs have been kicked out from several places because they are seen as a possible security threat. I've been kicked out from places such as Harrods, Casino Montecarlo, and many supermarkets.
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Beware not to use the future as an excuse to ignore living in the present.
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The biggest challenge for cyborgs is to be socially accepted. Society needs to accept that there are people who wish to use technology as part of the body.
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Color is everywhere, so everything has changed. I still can't see color, but I can perceive it. I can experience it in a way that allows me to be a part of this reality, which I was excluded from before. Thanks to the eyeborg, I've made a career by combining music and art.
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I don't feel that I'm using technology, I don't feel that I'm wearing technology, I feel that I am technology.
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When you're a little weird, you aspire to be normal; when you're very weird, you aspire to be recognised for it.
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Life will be much more exciting when we stop creating applications for mobile phones and we start creating applications for our own body.
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There are no white skins, and there are no black skins. Humans skins are of different shades of orange.
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If salads sounded like Justin Bieber, children would eat more vegetables.
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If I have problems perceiving a color I don't know who to go to – an opthamologist, a neurologist, or a computer programmer.
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Technology is made by humans. If we modify our body with human creations we become more human.
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Light is slow.
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Knowledge comes from our senses, extend our senses and we extend our knowledge. Let's stop building apps for mobile phones and start building apps for our bodies.
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When you're a little weird, you aspire to be normal; when you're very weird, you aspire to be recognized for it.