http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OTjANCXS6A
second life: where people escape to a virtual reality. nowadays this seems to be the closest approach to the matrix with the difference of still beeing present in the real world (more or less)…

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http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/0,1518,180935,00.html

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http://www.computer-gehirn.de/

What can computer do?
What can humans do?

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Check the Meatrix, a parody on the matrix:
http://www.themeatrix1.com/

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http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/tech/0,1518,394217,00.html
according to the implanted plugins of the leftover humans to enter the matrix today there are already attempts to combine the human body with technical advances.

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So far the artificial intelligence is already frightening….

http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/0,1518,180935,00.html

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Living in virtual reality

Virtual reality (VR) is a technology which allows a user to interact with a computer-simulated environment, whether that environment is a simulation of the real world or an imaginary world.

Second Life (SL) is a virtual world developed by Linden Lab that launched on June 23, 2003, and is accessible via the Internet.

Today many people are addicted to their virtual games and lifes, that they can not differentiate between reality and virtual world.
In my oppinion it is possible that in the future we will live in a virtual world like in the film.

http://www.n24.de/news/newsitem_4123361.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Life
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_reality

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The human as an energy source

In the film matrix the androids get their energy from the humans.

Now young scientists developed a technique that uses the energy from the human body heat. That’s an example for human energy sources and maybe in the future we can drive our cars only with the energy of our body. That would be great!

http://www.geo.de/GEO/technik/55270.html

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Das Fraunhofer-Institut beschäftigt sich seit langer Zeit mit dem Thema “Bewegungskontrollsysteme”. Der Computer soll Stimmungsschwankungen des Users analysieren und so erkennen, wann dieser gute oder schlechte Laune hat und ob er etwa müde ist etc.

http://www.ipa.fraunhofer.de/index.php?id=327

http://www.fuse.de/home/main.php?action=ReadNews&ItemId=70

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The hoverships in the Matrix that rescues the humans is supported by anti-gravity generators. Until today, science has not found a solution and The Institute for Gravity Research of the Göde Scientific Foundation has even announced a one million Euro award:

>> The “Göde reward for gravity research” is an innovative prize. The intent of this prize is to influence gravity with presently unknown methods. Applicants must successfully design, construct and complete an experiment with specified performance characteristics. A 20 gram heavy device or the assembly itself, is required to float freely at least 1 minute at a minimum distance of 10 cm from any surface.<<

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the neural/silicon barrier has been broken:

Here`s an example, where an insect is controlled by an computersystem. It`s limited to mechanical reactions but its an beginning.

http://www.heise.de/tr/artikel/Ferngesteuerte-Kaefer-fuer-die-US-Armee-276062.html

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Second Life ist eine Online-3D-Infrastruktur für von Benutzern gestaltete virtuelle Welten, in der Menschen durch Avatare interagieren, spielen, Handel betreiben und anderweitig kommunizieren können. Das seit 2003 verfügbare System hat 15 Millionen registrierte Benutzerkonten, über die rund um die Uhr meist rund 60.000 Nutzer gleichzeitig in das System eingeloggt sind.

http://secondlife.com/

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Here is an evidence for artificial inteligence in creating human robots.who knows,maybe some of us will have robot twin in the future!

1.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RksP_gAqSh0&feature=related

2.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N25kM1e48Do

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Kevin Warwick ist der erste Mensch, der sein Nervensystem mit einem handlungsfähigem Computer verbinden ließ. Der Kybernetik-Professor an der britischen University of Reading beschäftigt sich mit der Schnittstelle zwischen menschlichem Nervensystemen und Computersystemen.

http://www.kevinwarwick.org/index.asp

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I was wondering if there are already some artificial robots that can do more than just move or walk and I found them! The first I found is a robot who is able to play the violin. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzjkBwZtxp4

The nother example I found was also VERY interesting. It´s about a robot housekkeper who does all the duties that must done in the house like the dishes, hoovering and many more…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zD45oO0ZO4

The last example is about a cooking robot!
A good replacement fr Tim Melzer, I think!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNSKMGurrPI

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i find a Computer brain interface which is similar to the psychkenese idea, it is often use in literature and tv, also in The Matrix. In the future it is to help disabled people;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJ-HD4uIKdc&feature=related

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Virtual Realities are already highly developed. You can touch things, move about in a room or listen in 3D. The only thing that can not yet be simulated is sensory stimulation. But who know’s how long that will take…

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_reality

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Zion is a hill outside the walls of Jerusalem. Still Zion often is used as a synecdoche for Jerusalem and the Land of Israel, Promised Land, distant but much wanted goal or even utopia.

In the Matrix Zion is a human-controlled underground city.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zion

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zion_(disambiguation)

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I suppose they are still not AI driven … but what a nasty thought, if these things would be in command by Google. Analog to the robots in Terminator that were also driven by an artificial intelligence (skynet). When does Google get cybernetic ?!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRwg9VtejXI

Big Dog has nice cybernetics … very scary

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHJJQ0zNNOM

Big Dog parody

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrmYk_VBelg

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Der Mensch als lebende Batterie ist nach wissenschaftlicher Meinung nicht möglich, aber es soll in der Zukunft möglich sein Armbanduhren mit Körperwärme zu betreiben.

Wie funktioniert es?

Die Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft hat eine Technik entwickelt, die die benötigte Energie für diese Geräte allein aus menschlicher Körperwärme bezieht. Die elektrische Spannung wird dabei aus dem Unterschied zwischen Körper und Umgebungstemperatur erzeugt.

http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/0,1518,505758,00.html

http://www.geo.de/GEO/technik/55270.html

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as a reference to the scene, where neo gets a probe injected in his belly, there is a so called spider pill.
“The ’spider pill’, which is fitted with a camera, is swallowed by the patient and once within the colon or intestine the legs are opened.”

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8301232.stm

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A new Robot from Japan expressed emotion.
The Robot have no emotions, but he can express it.
It looks a little bit strangely but we take the first steps to AI!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_q-VOc3×7Y

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according to artificial intelligence, there`s an interesting essay about the future (in german):

http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/0,1518,661542,00.html

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the neural/silicon barrier has been broken

http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/medizin/0,1518,663300,00.html

“Gedanken steuern Computer”

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Interesting Article “Our Future In The Matrix”(German)

Wem gehören unsere Daten? Wer bremst Google? Zerstört das Internet die Mittelschicht? Durch die Vernetzung der Welt bleibt nichts, wie es war. Ein Essay von Nicholas Carr

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