There's so many examples in popular culture
where we're terrified.
Movies about technologies that we can use
to destroy ourselves in the future.
The Matrix.
The Terminator.
We have Blade Runner.
I was looking for these dystopian realities
but that's not what I found.
So, I'm a journalist, I'm a reporter.
I've spent my life covering lots of things.
There's so many things that would of sounded
completely insane just a few years ago
and that in fact were so dubious
that I wanted to look in to them
and I was amazed to find out they're actually possible.
Like, wow, its possible to build bionic limbs.
That's crazy.
Wait, you can regrow a finger.
Is that really possible?
They can make a helmet that can read your thoughts.
All of these things are things
that people are actually trying to do.
You know, what I found was again and again
these technologies were being used to help people
and that's why we keep moving forward with it.
My name is Adam Piore and my book is called
"The Body Builders: Inside the Science
of the Engineered Human".
Yeah, I've always been fascinated by human resilience
and one of the things I discovered is that some of the most
inspiration and powerful stories of human resilience
are being unleashed and unlocked by technology.
I heard about this guy who was a double amputee
and had built himself bionic limbs
that he was going to connect to his own nervous system
and I thought, I gotta talk to this guy.
Hugh Herr, he was considered like a rock climbing prodigy
but Hugh lost both his legs below the knees.
Then one day, he decided enough of this.
He began tinkering with his prosthetics.
He made little stumpy ones with bladed feet
that could fit into crevices.
Soon, he was an even better climber.
Hugh began enrolling in college classes
and he began taking math and engineering classes.
By the time he graduated,
he had an acceptance letter from MIT.
He ended up getting a PhD
and he began studying everything that was known
about how our limbs work.
And so he built a bionic limb.
I can even run.
And that was the first demonstration of a running gait
under neural command.
Feels great.
You know, there's not just bionics.
The last generation, the unknown was in the outside world.
We used our engineering prowess to send a man to the moon.
We built bridges and skyscrapers, then cars and planes.
And now, in this generation, the unknown and the frontier
is really the human body and mind
and decoding it and understanding it
down to the molecular level.
And some of the most talented engineers of our generation
are now pointing their sights inward to do that.
And then hack in to that to unleash untapped resilience
or upgrade it.
You know, there's a military scientists I talked to who
was in a program called Augmented Cognition, he oversaw it
and I said "Are these technologies a good thing
or a bad thing? Should we be scared of them
or should we welcome them?"
And he said "Well, it depends. Is a baseball bat
a good thing or a bad thing? It's a good thing if you use it
to play baseball with. It's a bad thing if you use it
to beat somebody over the head with".
But at its heart, where I saw these technologies applied,
they were being used to help people.
People who are facing challenges
most of us can't even imagine
but refuse to give up
and are teaching us something about where our limits lie
and how we might over come them.
And I actually just found it really inspirational.
This is taking us in to uncharted territory
in terms of the resilience that we can unlock
and the good we can do to help people.
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