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Deus Ex: The Eyeborg Documentary

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It has been some time ago that I first posted the Deus Ex: Human Revolution original trailer about the stunning video game from Eidos. The clip is so visually captivating that I am forced to re-watch it every once-in-a-while and ponder the myriad of profound issues that it touches on. Even more so, a reader of this blog once told me that it was seeing the Deus Ex trailer for the first time that made him aware of transhumanism and consequently pushed him to devote his life to studying it.

Enter Rob Spence. Those who missed my interview with Rob should know that he is known as the Eyeborg – a self proclaimed cyborg who lost an eye in an accident and replaced it with a wireless video camera. Rob is a wacky documentarian and recently joined forces with the gang from Square Enix to create Deus Ex: The Eyeborg Documentary.

When I posted the original trailer I asked: “What are the odds of those clips becoming reality?”

Well, as it turns out, this 15 minute documentary attempts to reply to that (rhetorical) question by investigating the latest in prosthetics, cybernetics and human augmentation.

So, how far are we from the future presented to us in Deus Ex: Human Revolution?

Check out the movie to find out!

I Am Eyeborg: Rob Spence on Singularity 1 on 1

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Today I am very happy to have the Eyeborg Rob Spence as my guest on Singularity 1 on 1. (As usual, you can listen to or download the audio above, or scroll down to see the video recording of the interview in full.)

Rob Spence is a Canadian director and producer who lives in Toronto. His work has appeared on Discovery, Vision, Space TV, and the CBC for which he made the controversial documentary Let’s All Hate Toronto. Currently, Rob is working on a documentary about how video and humanity intersect especially with regards to issues of surveillance and personal privacy.

Who is Rob Spence? What is project Eyeborg?

Take a one-eyed filmmaker, an unemployed engineer, and a vision for something that’s never been done before and you have yourself the EyeBorg Project. Rob Spence, Kosta Grammatis, and a team of others are trying to make history by embedding a video camera and a transmitter in a prosthetic eye. That eye is going in Rob’s eye socket and will record the world from a perspective that’s never been seen before.

The Singularity 1 on 1 Interview:

Below is my video interview with the Eyeborg Rob Spence in 4 parts. During our 40 min conversation, I get Rob to share his views on a wide variety of topics such as project Eyeborg, documentary film making, advanced prosthetics, artificial intelligence, transhumanism, the technological singularity, and others.

Check it out and don’t hesitate to let me know what you think…

(Please let me apologize for the poor video quality. Unfortunately, that is the risk one takes when recording on Skype. Fortunately, the sound is pretty good so it is still worth watching and/or hearing…)

 

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