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    The Father of the Cyborgs

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    Poster of the movie The Father of the Cyborgs
    2021     Documentary    
    Ireland
    1h 16min

    Dr. Phil Kennedy was once a famous neuroscientist. In the late 1990s he made global headlines for implanting several wire electrodes in the brain of a paralyzed man and then teaching the locked-in patient to control a computer cursor with his mind. He was compared to Alexander Graham Bell in The Washington Post and became known as 'The Father of the Cyborgs'. He made headlines more recently in 2014 when he travelled to South America and had tiny electrodes implanted inside his own brain in order to continue his research. The documentary examines the ethics of self-experimentation and the unintended consequences of a future where technology and human brains combine.

    Directed byDavid Burke
    Written byDavid Burke

    Featuring

    Joel Cervantes
    John Donoghue
    John Horgan
    Melody Moore Jackson
    David Jayne
    Dermot Kennedy
    Paul Kennedy
    Phil Kennedy
    Christof Koch
    Alice Leahy
    Mark O'Connell
    Paul Powton
    Eddie Ramsey
    Rajesh Rao
    Ian Robertson
    Karen Romelfanger
    Paul Root Wolpe
    Rafael Yuste

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