Rob Spence is a documentary filmmaker. He's also a self-described cyborg. Yup, he's replaced his eye with a wireless video camera and made a documentary about it, Deus Ex: The Eyeborg Documentary which was launched in conjunction with a video game called Deus Ex: Human Revolution. In it, Rob looks at the current state of cybernetics, and asks how far off a Deus Ex-like future might be and about the line between treatment and augmentation. (Runs 8:03)

• The Eyeborg Documentary
• Rob Spence
• Full uncut version of interview with Rob Spence

Ayesha Khanna is the director of the Hybrid Reality Institute, and she says we're starting to enter a new age - the "Hybrid Age" - which is characterized by pervasive computing, biotechnology, nanotechnology, and "the emergence of technologies as a social actor." That is, a time defined by our social interactions with the machines around us. (Runs 7:53)

• Ayesha Khanna
• Hybrid Reality Institute
• Full uncut version of interview with Ayesha Khanna

We're about to hear a story about young people and the lack of interest in computer science as a field of study. Spark contributor Corey Takahashi shows us all is not lost, at least when it comes to a group of teens in Silicon Valley. They've developed and launched several successful apps that help parents, students and administrators to communicate key school information via smart phones. (Runs 5:13)

• iFUSD
• Corey Takahashi

There's been a sharp decline in the number of young people studying Computer Science. Mark Allemang is a professor at Sault College in Sault Ste Marie Ontario who has seen this decline first hand, as more and more courses are cancelled in community college. But why do so-called digital natives lack interest in pursuing careers in tech fields? David Ticoll is the executive director of the Canadian Coalition for Tomorrow's ICT Skills, and he thinks the key is in not limiting education in computers to a hard category of 'computer science', but in thinking of educating young people in hybrid skills. (Runs 10:00)

• David Ticoll
• The Canadian Coalition for Tomorrow's ICT Skills (CCICT)
• Career Mash
• Sault College

Douglas Rushkoff's book Program or be Programmed argues kids should learn to code, not for their careers, but so they can understand the bias of digital technology. In fact, Douglas thinks we all could benefit from a little programming knowledge because at this point it is basic literacy. (Runs 13:21)

• Douglas Rushkoff
• Program Or Be Programmed: Ten Commands for a Digital Age
• Full uncut version of interview with Douglas Rushkoff