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The chances are good that these issues will increasingly enter into
our social and political consciousness in the coming years.

Chronology

1954 Kevin Warwick born February 9 in Coventry, England

1960s Kevin’s father’s operation sparks an interest in neurology and
the brain

1970s Warwick works as a telephone technician
1974 The TV series The Six Million Dollar Man popularizes the
idea of bionic organisms for cyborgs
1976 Warwick enrolls in the University at Aston
1979 Warwick obtains his bachelor’s degree in electrical and elec-
tronic engineering
1982 Warwick receives his Ph.D. at Imperial College, London

1983–85 Warwick becomes a lecturer at the University of Newcastle
and receives an Oxford fellowship

1988 Warwick becomes professor of cybernetics at the University of
Reading

1990s Warwick and other researchers work on assistive technologies
for the disabled

1991 Warwick begins work on the “Seven Dwarfs” cooperative
learning robots

1998 Warwick receives a radio transponder implant in August; it
communicates with computers and controls building doors
and lights
2002 A neural array is implanted in Warwick’s arm on March
14; experiments subsequently demonstrate the ability to
send and receive nerve signals and control computers and
robots