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Future Congress 2018: A chip will turn S. Gabor Janszky into a cyborg

This Global Topspeaker performance will get under your skin: Futurologist Sven Gabor Janszky will use this year’s 2b AHEAD Future Congress as an opportunity to have an intelligent chip implanted under his skin– live and in front of the audience. The technology programmed in the chip can then, for instance, replace a key or a wallet. And thanks to its smart features, it can also learn additional functions. Is this the first step into a world full of cyborgs, then?

The 17th Future Congress in Wolfsburg will address not only this question but many other visions of the future as well. Hosted by Germany’s leading future institute 2b AHEAD ThinkTank, the focus in 2018 will be on the provocative question: How much “human” can the future take? During the two-day program - from June 19 to 20 -, international keynote speakers and lecturers from the US, Europe and Asia will draw up the technology roadmaps for the next ten years and talk about which innovations in the AI and IT sector will entail major changes for our body, our health and the medical field in general.

Biohacker Dr. Patrick Kramer - who has already tested several smart implants himself and has recently captured the media’s attention at the IT trade fair Cebit with these polarising interventions - will talk about his experiences at the opening panel. He will also be the one to plant the chip under Global Topspeaker Sven Gabor Janszky’s skin in the course of his presentation. The future expert is convinced that the functions of the human body thus can soon be improved or upgraded and we will become more efficient – physically and mentally – in the process. The impact this will have on the co-existence of man and machine in the years to come is what Janzky’s new presentation „Mein Sohn, der Cyborg – Wie Technologie Menschen menschlicher macht” (My son the cyborg – how technology makes humans more human) is about as well. In this context, his prognosis for the future of the next generation is: „Our children will turn into cyborgs.”

In the course of this intervention not only Sven Gabor Janszky will get closer to life as a cyborg, however. He will also have ten other participants take an implanted chip home with them as a special souvenir for he will raffle off 10 complementary smart chips among all attendees. Numerous participants from renowned companies such as Warner Bros, Audi, MediaSaturn or Dr. Oetker have already confirmed their attendance. You may register for the 2b AHEAD Future Congress here.