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$10000000.00 and the bank have lost their money and that could just be the tip of the iceberg. as the b also has branches in india, china and all across europe, in the u. k. more than 180 companies have sent a joint letter to the british government, calling for help. the loss of deposits has the potential to cripple the sector and set the ecosystem back 20 years. when he businesses will be sent into involuntary liquidation overnight. this crisis will start on monday, and so we call on you to prevent it. now, parallels are being drawn to the global financial crisis of 2008, which was triggered by the collapse of what was america's 5th largest investment bank. bear stearns. it's exposure to the subprime mortgage fiasco led to the so called freight recession, and was the start of a domino effect of financial business failures. a recession in the u. s. economy was also seen as a key factor in the crisis and an attempt to slow the economic downturn,
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the federal reserve significantly cut interest rates. but due to the loss of revenue and declining market confidence, more banks began to fail. lehman brothers was the largest institution to collapse. and interestingly, the person who directed its financial operations also served as the chief administrative officer for silicon valley bank. quantum fund co founder and investment guru jim rogers believes a cascade effect from the banks. failure is coming, but it's just a matter of time. it's a very large bag because you know, we don't know how the same wind up the 1st day or the 1st week even. but usually there's a snowball effect. you mentioned in 2008 that led to huge problems because the debt was so high, right? since 2009, the debt has gone up very, very high everywhere. so this is probably going to snowball into serious problems
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down the road, whether it's next month or next year. bad times are coming. us is the largest economy in the world where the largest, better nation in the world affect everybody. will the u. s. government do something . yes, of course they're worried about their jobs. they're worried about other people's job. so they will take cash nation, not the best solution is to let the market take care of it. wipe out the bank, wipe out the people, make mistakes and start over. will they do that? of course not. they will try to profit up. they will try to crop it up and that will lead to worse problems down the road. and that's all for now. be sure to check out our t v dot com for all the latest breaking news and updates. we'll see you right back here at the top of the hour. ah, ah,
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while most of us think that sy fy films are merely fantasy. there are those who try to push the limits of technology in the human body to make those fantasies. reality . bio hackers are those want to hack their bodies and minds using scientific and technological advances to modify their own bodies and push the limits of human biology. this includes using technologies to optimize and augment the body and also drugs to expand the mind. smart drugs, or new tropics is an emerging market that claim to make you smarter, enhance memory, and make you more efficient. in essence, bio hackers are helping to test our limits and are constantly pushing the boundaries when it comes to trying to upgrade us as human. i'm because the i and you're watching the cost of everything we're today. we're going to be exploring the world of bio hacking. and if this is simply a trend or the next big movement me,
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the bio hacking is a rod and amorphous term that can cover many activities. popular hacks include intermittent fasting supplements, or using wearable technologies to track sleep and heart rate. take that one step further and then you have things like sleeping in a hyper bear chamber prior therapy for muscle recovery, red light therapy for anti aging. and more that have been popularized by silicon valley bros. like jack dorsey and other famous figures. and then on the far end of that spectrum, you have the blurred edges between tech biotech and human. you had things like elan mosques, neural link which is a brain implant company with initial goal is to help people with paralysis, to regain independence through the control of computers and mobile devices. while it is said that neuro link is working well in monkeys,
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he hoped to test it on humans with severe spinal cord injury is like tetra paralegic or quadriplegics in the near future. another company thing kron is also working on similar technology as it plans to place a device called the central, which is smaller than a match stick into the brain to help paralyze patients control digital devices. the military is also considering implants for soldiers that may be useful to monitor their health data and even recovering them if they were captured or lost in war. technology now has made it so that 6 completely blind, people have had their vision partially restored via a device that these camera images directly into the brain using electrodes bypassing the damaged optic nerve. artificial vision is still in its infancy, but so far the results have been very encouraging. another recent example using biotech to enhance our senses is the night vision, eye drops,
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which allowed test subject to see in the dark. these eye drops were made with a chemical found in a deep sea fish and the effects will last for several hours. scientists are even developing a sensitive artificial skin to make prosthetics feel more lifelike. there's already a material that can sense pressure, moisture, and heat. so it would be used as skin to cover artificial limbs. and advancements in technology and biotech, while rooted out of medical necessity are now being used by bio hackers in order to optimize their own health, personal fitness, efficiency, and longevity. now to dig some more, we're joined in by dan low, ron author and cybersecurity, expert santana. what is the ultimate purpose of all this? and file hacking. yes, it does. it does a certainly a large group who want to ultimately enhance ah,
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human capabilities and, and you know, we way back when growing up, we had the $6000000.00 man, right. and we can make them better. we can make them stronger, we can make them faster. and i remember growing up watching that as a boy. and i think there's a lot of truth in that people want to say is, are there ways we can um, enhance, you know, capabilities for the future. certainly, another thing piece of this is as artificial intelligence becomes more and more a widespread in the decades ahead and becomes more and more common around the world using that in a wide variety of applications for humans to be able to perform the best of this more and more talk that you need to have linkage is bringing together human and bio interfaces, you know, with, with the machines you know, to provide bent the best use of a i the best use of artificial intelligence. and. busy also technology to enhance human function. so that's ultimately where this is going. i think certainly of jury
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diseases. this is where it's going to really start to really maybe become more commonplace in society. right now. it's still pretty much a fringe active duty for just a small group of people around the world. when you look at the billions of people that live, you know, worldwide. and do you think this is a dangerous trend we'll hear of celebrities like jack dorsey, or grimes day also i so my teens and hacks to obtain what they believe is optimal health and state of mind, but it doesn't actually work or can it be dangerous? that's what i think it can be dangerous. and i mean, i actually come from cyber security world background, the national security agency and, but it's, i'm security my whole life. and, you know, i think the fears are in many cases, well founded that will, how would that data be used? how will the information be use? could it be misused by government or others? i'm just in the same way that, you know,
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maybe data's been misused by some social media companies used to, um, you know, to create situations where people are attracted and doing things it might be harmful or um, you know, you know, could, could this data be this technology and or our data be misuse and i think that's where the danger comes in. and i think there's going to be experimentation is going to be testing. i don't think it's, it's all or nothing, you know, but i do think people worry about everything from 984, you know, big brother um and then this is more like ok. busy control, so i think reading people over when i posted this kind of take my articles, i've got several different articles on this topic and linked in it was like 90 percent or more greater were against it. they said this is not good it's, i'm never going to put a chip in my body. i'm never going there. so that's why i say initially, i think the adoption is really going to be for medical uses for uses where you can show that, hey,
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this can really either heal disease or greatly enhance and provide the ability for men and women for people to be able to um, you know, overcome disabilities to solve medical problems and as that becomes more widespread than i think people are gonna maybe be more open to, to the wider piece. but yes, i do think it could be dangerous. i do think it could be misused. and now a lot of those are hot, they're not whacked by enough scientific data. and yet you have some people going to extreme lengths like modifying their own genome. so i think this being regulated, not right now. they need to be, i mean i, i totally agree that those are challenges and i think, you know, bleeding edge aspects of this are scare ah, you know, it's, it's, some movies are made up. so i absolutely believe that we're regulation needs to become a needs to be, you know, scientific evidence needs to be provided or needs to be a reasonable,
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basically safeguards put in place. and that, you know, that, you know, right now, today is we, you know, on record this is, this is, this is really bleeding edge technology. and, and so i think the proof could be, need to come from those who are pushing the envelope in this area. and early can others that are going to be coming out with new um, you know, new technology to do this and more, more areas. and i think a lot of people are going to be skeptical initially. it's going to take time to build trust with society and who has the, who has the control over these. and i think it's gonna take time to really, to build that trust. and wow, a lot of the pile hackers and narrow hackers claim positive boost spend their effect. how can the nisha it's merely isn't a placebo effect. i don't you get the sure. and again, i think, i think you have to have, you know, the reasons why they do double blind test. there's reasons why, you know,
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you need to be verified over time and over, you know, these excited methods. so yeah, i don't believe currently as it stands today, we're out in late 2022. that that is, you know, that is something that is, that is acceptable currently. so i, i would, i would say, you know, be careful. and now there are some extreme methods on the border on ethically ambiguous territories, things like young blood transfusions, way transfused, the blood of something younger and healthier. how do you see this industry involving? that's a great question. not a doctor. so i'm again, i'm, i'm looking at this mainly from a cybersecurity perspective and from, you know, just the perspective of. busy of professionals in the united states and trends that are happening and the merger of a lot of different fields in science and medicine and technology and, and, you know, i, i do see more and more, you know,
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advancements in this area. i think that, you know, people are talking, broadly speaking, that we could have artificial intelligence at the, at the basic human level of, of, of, of a 10 year old or of a teenager. ah, within, within, you know, 15 year. so i've heard dates like 2042038 we could have of that kind of thing. so i, i certainly think we're going to be seeing more and more of this. i think you're going to see more advancements. you know, but i think you're going to have to choose them forward one step back, one was that forward to step back, just like you know, a few years ago were talking about. 6 by 2025, all vehicles will be autonomous. all new vehicles, thomas, it's clear that's not going to be happening. we are going to head autonomous vehicles, but it's good take maybe some people are now saying decades to get there. so i do think that this is going to take time, but i do think that people can be pushing the envelope and we need to have
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a relationship around that. we need to be thinking clearly about this and it's going to take time to do that. angle found my stan lauren by a time an inside but medical necessity, the side would you pay to receive a chip implant if they offer some other optional medical enhancements plan madi, most of these advancements and right out of medical necessity. but technology has advanced to offer more things like deep brain stimulation, which started out as a treatment for parkinson's disease. now suggests that a chip and plant can booster them, right? so you pay to push the limits of the human body and hack your, my ology to be more efficient, stronger, faster, better, and how much to be advanced technology is cost to develop while have more after the re ah,
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with a bunch i should put the ball with just a little no on the wall. a question for you to use new was from the william, which is a new with decision. ah, your promotional session with this is a scheduled shore, so,
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but i'm not sure if he's jewish bill sharp with a come back must had initially invested a $100000000.00 of his own money into neural link. the device received an f. d. a breakthrough designation in 2021 and would be robotically stitched on to the brain to alternately address musculoskeletal and neurological problems as well as prac, movement and stream music must describe it as a bit bit in your skull. now, neural lank has since raised over $300000000.00 for r and b, as well as to develop its robotics surgeon that would be responsible for implanting the chip. must claim that the entire procedure will be performed by
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a robot and he expects the surgery to end up costing only a few $1000.00. now muscle control prosthetic limbs, for amputees or quadriplegics, are also making huge advances. new a i chip technology would allow patients to control robotic body parts using their thoughts by employing machine learning. currently today. prosthetics on the market . detect shoulder, chest or muscle movement. they has sensors to recognize signals in specific regions of the human body that tell it to move in a certain way. adapting to these muscle driven linds is not easy for most patients, and they are unsuitable for physically weak individuals. with a i chips, these neural prosthetic arm moved with the will of the patients mines. it is efficient, easy to use and a lot more intuitive than any commercial prosthetic system available. while the cost of prosthetic vary from limb to limb, a basic muscle control upper lim,
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prosthetic cost, about $7000.00. in contrast, and a i power prosthetic could range anywhere from $30000.00 to over a $100000.00. these are definitely luxury items and are priced accordingly because of the expensive a i chips that power the lens. these neuro morphic chips seek to imitate the learning ability and energy efficiency of human brains. and this is proving to be very popular with the prosthetics as a system is capable of stimulating a 100000000 neurons. now to the 1000000 global new amputees yearly, these new prosthetic systems will help lessen the learning curve in adjusting to their new normal. in addition to that, as technology continues to advance these prosthetics also helped to supplement healthy individuals with additional lens. think a i powered exoskeletons that can help you lift 200 pounds effortlessly. now,
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while these devices are not yet available commercially to consumers, they are available to certain clinics and cost upwards of $80000.00. while the far end of bio hacking spectrum that includes a i, chips and surgery implants is not yet available into mainstream consumers. the middle ground has now been popularized by celebrities. athletes like tom brady tech rows like bases and dorsey. and many more have popularized things like intermittent fasting crime therapy for muscle recovery. and boosting metabolism, which costs about $50.00 per 2 minute session. l e. d, infrared saunas to promote anti aging, which can cost over a $100.00 per hour session. now let's bring in, in con, metal verse expert futurist and author. so are there any complications from the surgery and how big are these chips? what are they made of? and how often do they need to be replaced or updated?
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so microchips that are used in health care today specially in brain implants or any other biometric that's inserted in the body. the sizes very end of the sizes dramatically reduced from the last few years of the last decade since this reach that started happening right now. you could have a microchip that's one millimeter along and you can't even see it really depends on what the microchip is being used for. if you look at some of the new technology such as newer link in case of brain implants, it's no longer a microchip, but it's a very thin sensor that's thinner than a here on the person's head that is inserted in the brains are really, really depends on what tech, what technology is being used, how information and data is being gathered and collected from that micro chip or that technology. and then where is it going? so there's no one standard one fit for all. and also because this field is very new, there's cutting edge research happening. there aren't many f d, a approvals on this, anything and everything is available out there at
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a very research level. so we'll see where this technology goes. and now what is the cost to get the surgery and when will insurance cover it? so this moment a lot of insurance companies, if not all, may not cover surgeries where you're getting any kind of an implant. now again, there's different types of implants. if i put something on micro chip that has an are, if i d meter subcutaneous lee, i put it under my skin and i use it, let's say p at starbucks or p at my grocery store. that's a very simple kind of an implant. what the chip is very simple, there isn't much in there. there's an r f i d sensor in there doesn't quoted to a specific information that you get to program before you embedded in. so a few 100 to a couple of $1000.00 of costs incorporate incurred when you're doing that. when you look at more expensive or more research kind of technologies that are there,
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they're not commercially available. you cannot just go and walk into a clinic and say, hey, i need a brain implant, i need a retina implant. i need a hearing implant of some kind. so can i put it on my insurance insurance companies to believe you typically work with generic general health issues, diabetes, or chronic illnesses. arthritis and what have you dental? i benefits and they would not cover any of these surgeries. the reason being they're very expensive. there isn't a straightforward pricing guide that you can open and say, hey, this is how much is gonna cost me to do these implants. i don't anticipate insurance companies to cover these in the near future because the costs are dramatically high of again, as i said, majority of these implants are not 50 approved. they're not in the general sense of health care out there and not everybody in the population would get them. so i see approvals within health care being of being a long path that needs to be chaste. what does the future these checks look like?
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do they get bigger or smaller and more powerful? and what else will these tests be capable of doing? has ellen max neuro link involve teaching diseases like skits franny are autism, as he has stated, that will stimulate the brain and the court brain activity? so the future of these chips and this technology is really headed into a, 1st of all the form factor becoming smaller chips are becoming smaller. they're carrying more data carrying more information. there's optical fiber technology rather than a wire being put in. so in on that, on, on that side there's, there's definitely dramatic improvements that are happening. if you remember back in the eighty's or ninety's, we had big giant desktop computers and we all were hooked on to desktops. but now you're apple. i watch or your i phone or your any smartphone is a 1000 times more powerful than those computers we used and those desktops and, and we don't even use desktops anymore. so what is happening with technology is the form factor, which is the shape and the size of technology is decreasing and it's becoming
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smaller capacities, doubling, quadrupling every single year. and so that is good news when it comes to healthcare, when it comes to chips and microprocessors that would be embedded inside the body of a person. because now you don't have to cut as much. now the body is not going to reject that sensor or that chip as much because she answered anything into a human body. the human body will reject it. it'll form your, you know, layers of different all fluids around it. and it will really try to protect of self and that's the natural protection mechanism behalf of so that's great news for factors becoming smaller in the future. also, we're looking at maybe artificial intelligence working really intelligently and actually working property intelligently getting more data. and, you know, correlate all the data it collects and try to figure out what is happening within the human body. so let's say we use these micro chips in a person who's physically disabled they can on with their arm or leg,
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or don't have body movement of the chips may be able to read information and, and, and, and provide health care practitioners information about what parts of muscles are not working, which muscles need activation or what is wrong? i'm not a medical doctor, so i can't comment on that. but when it comes to technology, we're definitely making progress. but a lot more studies need to be done. lot more lab work needs to be done. and hopefully in the next uh, few years we might have, you know, treatments and tours available for conditions that we are unable to treat right now . and what about the neural engineering system design, or any sd program sponsored my diaper that will build the bridge between the brains and computers, has that program achieved its goal to link matter and micro chips? so many different technologies have come and stayed and gone on the specifically technologies by darwin. others, everything is experimental. i mean, if you actually watch some of the new sy fi movies, for example, i, i and mother,
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you watch terminator, you watch any modern sy fine will we, you'll see all the technologies that we're talking about happen. but in a virtual world, in a, in a, in a movie, dramatized are dramatized waste. what is happening on the ground is different technology by darpa, that you mentioned is still a very early in its early stages. we hear a lot about our technologies being used in espionage and we hear in movies and other news that you don't brain to waive sensing technologies are being used or mind reading technologies are used theoretically. yes. many of them are possible and we don't know what people are working on within their laboratories and in the secret kind of labs. but at these technologies are not out here. they're not in a hospital until they're not proven to be working. they're not allowed to work to regulated means we don't have access to them. and i hope some of these come through and we are able actually to benefit from them now is very insightful. thank you so
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much for your time. ultimately, bio hockey is a mindset as much as any specific action or discipline. the mindset of bio hacking is the goal of optimizing your life in regards to your health performance work using all the tools and technology that we have available to us. the popularity of bio hacking has boomed in the past 10 years with people trying to take their own health in their own hands using technology to track various data points in their lives. there are also things like experiment, which is a kick start our program for research projects that lets people crowd fund research that interests them open. insulin for example, is a project that is trying to make the production of insulin cheap and easy to do at home. and this project spark massive interest and might create a pathway for people to start looking, a bio hockey for personalized medicine. the open source gender codes aims to
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engineer trans genetic tobacco plans to produce cheaper gender hormones for trans people. more and more community labs are giving people the tools and knowledge to design experiments to hack their lives. the history of science is full of stories of doctors and researchers being their own guinea pig to prove whether or not their ideal works. socks tried the polio vaccine on himself, not to mention august beer who used the spinal anesthesia on himself before any one else. bio hackers have long been frustrated with the updated sluggishness in green lighting, all sorts of treatments. it can take up to 10 years for a new drug to be developed and approved in the u. s. for people with serious health conditions. and this is why bio hackers want to empower people to experiment on themselves. however, that's not to say that anyone can do this. there's serious risks and repercussions
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when experiments go wrong. like when a man injected himself was untested herpes treatment, or when another shared a self created gene therapy for lactose intolerance. mistakes and bio hyping seems to be getting higher and higher and eventually someone is going to end up hurt if they do not have the proper medical or technological knowledge. i'm christy. i thanks for watching and we'll see you back here next time on the cost of everything for you. ah ah
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