This week, the crew chats to Dr Garrick Orchard, Senior Research Scientist at Temasek Laboratories and the Singapore Institute for Neurotechnology (SINAPSE), all the way from the IBM TrueNorth bootcamp in San Jose, discussing the human eye, neuromorphic computing and imaging, advances in processing power, the future of A.I. as well as some of the philosophical implications.
Also in studio is Femke Brandt, researcher in land, technology and globalisation at the UCT African Studies Centre.
Also: Call the international space station from a home made radio, charging super highways, cellphone cancer, old people and robots, robot hotels and more Hitchbot. You can never have enough Hitchbot.