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- wishninja, on 06/25/2008, -2/+41If the implant runs on windows it would bring new meaning to blue screen of death.
- Farik, on 06/26/2008, -1/+17The Singularity is Near.
- ivan423, on 06/25/2008, -2/+13It's from Florida. Will it be programmed to help Floridians figure out how to work a voting machine?
- relic180, on 06/26/2008, -0/+9Actually, the "real you" would probably just get a lot better at accessing information, instead of gathering and storing it.
Brains don't get fat and lazy, only their owners do. - inactive, on 06/26/2008, -0/+8I love the idea of having a library of information in my head, or a bunch of languages, or even the ability to wirelessly download a programme and then say 'Dude - I know Kung Fu !"
The only downsides I can see are viruses, spyware, adware and mind control by right wing neo-cons or nu labour. - InvisibleInk, on 06/25/2008, -2/+10I want my brain's identity and memories and consciousness to be implanted into in computer capable of artificial intelligence before I die so that I can continue to live as a ghost in a machine.
- xexx, on 06/26/2008, -0/+7How old are you? 80? Cause I'm 22 and plan to be around for all of it :)
- Hangly, on 06/26/2008, -3/+10I want to photocopy my ass before I die so I can continue to live as a ghost on paper.
- flossdaily, on 06/26/2008, -0/+6The question isn't "will they", but "WHEN will they"
- WallnutBoy, on 06/26/2008, -0/+6...The Digg 'submission races' are gonna get a whole lot worse once we have access to the internet from our brains.. -_-
- Grommy, on 06/26/2008, -2/+8It's too bad none of this will ever become really advanced in my lifetime. I'd love to be a cyborg.
- RailOcelot, on 06/26/2008, -0/+4"Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them."
" 'Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a man's mind,'"
or
"'Thou shalt not make a machine to counterfeit a human mind.'" - chaddles, on 06/26/2008, -4/+8You can put an implant in my brain when you pry it from my cold, dead skull.
- beebopbop, on 06/25/2008, -4/+8I want one, so I don't have to do any more manual research--I'll just let my symbiote look it up for me. My only concern is that my brain would increasingly rely on the implant until the real me slowly becomes more and more stupid and vegetable-like.
- Risingashes, on 06/26/2008, -0/+4If you have a computer in your brain then you wont need to have schools.
Tests wont be a way to evaluate intelligence, but rather a way to ensure the implant is working correctly. - XternalHD, on 06/26/2008, -0/+4Then it brings about the problem of ghost-hacking.
- TheClone, on 06/26/2008, -1/+5Crude but insightful.
- xister, on 06/26/2008, -1/+5"We are the Borg. Lower your shields and surrender your ships. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your culture will adapt to service us. Resistance is futile."
- xexx, on 06/26/2008, -1/+4Republicans will legislate against it because it's against "gods law".
- relic180, on 06/26/2008, -0/+3It's a 'Cyborg' (or 'Symbiote') which is defined as a combination of synthetic and biological parts. Robots and machines involve no biological components.
- witchaven, on 06/26/2008, -0/+3This has quite a lot of potential and quite a lot of peril. For instance, the risks posed by malicious hacking, mind control by the govt/corporations, and so on, are enormous. I for one will not run any computer in my brain if, when I ask the company for the schematics and source code, they reply: "I'm sorry, that information is proprietary."
- UNDERSTAR, on 06/26/2008, -1/+4I want to be running around in a Motoko shell!
- solidus636, on 06/26/2008, -0/+3OK, if this were to happen, I'm sure the firmware would be upgradable or something like that....
- positron, on 06/27/2008, -0/+3That was exactly my point Frostek. Schools today don't teach logic or creative problem solving, they train parrots through rote memorization. They give kids information but don't teach them how to use it. With implants like these the kids will have the information stored or easily accessible, forcing teachers to actually teach.
- HaoTian, on 06/26/2008, -0/+3I disagree... If I had faster access to information in the form of a neural implant, I'd not just be regurgitating information... I'd simply have a larger store of information to form an educated opinion on.
It would also allow me to see how others have thought on similar ideas, which could stimulate me to think in ways I wouldn't have otherwise. - joshuabowers, on 06/26/2008, -0/+3Mmm... Melange.
- palewook, on 06/26/2008, -0/+3forget the bluescreen of death issues, what happens when you forget the critical security updates..
- thedudeknows, on 06/26/2008, -0/+3I don't mind getting neural nanonics. Worked pretty good in the Night Dawn Trilogy.
- Nosferotu, on 06/26/2008, -0/+3I want one, I want one so bad.
- MacEnvy, on 06/26/2008, -0/+3I'm WAY ahead of you on that. Didn't even need an implant.
- joshuabowers, on 06/26/2008, -0/+3Hurray! BrainPal's for everyone!
- xeemo, on 06/26/2008, -0/+2excerpt:
The sci-fi inspired implications are staggering. Will it give humans ESP using blue tooth technology to “beam” thoughts directly from one implant to another? What if you could somehow remotely override someone else’s neural computer? In theory you could control their physical actions and even their words. Or what if neural implants become commonplace enhancements for those who can afford it, effectively separating the human race into two major classes—superhuman vs the non-enhanced? - Haoie, on 06/26/2008, -0/+2Allowing humans to become like the Borg, as you mentioned, isn't a particularly good way to promote this.
I value my individuality, thanks. No collective mind for me. - c3rul3an, on 06/26/2008, -0/+2Welcome my son...Welcome to the machine....
- inactive, on 06/26/2008, -1/+3No more one handed typing!
- xexx, on 06/26/2008, -0/+2no, it wouldn't.
- killbert24, on 06/26/2008, -0/+2But how will teachers stop us from using our brain computer implants to cheat on tests? Would they set up some kind of machine that disables chips within a certain perimeter?
Or maybe school work would just become a lot harder since teachers know we can use the computer chip attached to our brains. - ajkrik, on 06/28/2008, -0/+1Someday the machines will be communicating about all the pesky cellular entities that lower the efficiency of existance on earth. The next major evolution will be the confluent development of self-replicating machines using nano-nano technology incorporating DNA.
- wishninja, on 06/27/2008, -0/+1we will defiantly need to change the way software is released. Today it seems they get a draft program running and then box it up and ship it out without hardly doing any debugging its not just microsoft. Even my new firefox 3.0 one crashing mo-fo.
- Frostek, on 06/26/2008, -0/+1People with computers in their brains will be adding more parrot-like ability than free thinking ability, so I'd dispute this myself.
- flocktest, on 06/26/2008, -0/+1brinlsa
- inactive, on 06/26/2008, -0/+1"I thought what I'd do was, I'd pretend I was one of those deaf-mutes."
- newsboys, on 06/27/2008, -0/+1Yes.
- NanoStuff, on 06/27/2008, -0/+1The "government" won't have any more access to your brain than it does today. Synthetic distributed neural networks without an operating system or connective interface will be just as inaccessible, just not biological. Artificial doesn't always mean running XP with embedded wifi.
- bono4u, on 06/27/2008, -0/+1The same kind of cells which are in your brain are situated around your whole gut and neuro scientists have made the conclusion that there is your emotional long term memory. I think that is also one part of myself.
- funkaHdafi, on 06/26/2008, -0/+1Does it stream porn right into my braincells? I'll take one.
- inactive, on 06/26/2008, -0/+1well no *****
- RicktheBrick, on 06/26/2008, -0/+1What if we could communicate with anyone on Earth just by thinking their name? What if we could have more than one conversation at the same time? Why should we build prisons anymore we could just make sure that all illegal acts could be prevented by the implant. If someone tried to commit murder than the implant would render them unconscious for a small amount of time and repeatedly until they gave up on it.
- sotose, on 06/26/2008, -0/+1Early adopters will get screwed as always.
"Well today we've decided to LOWER the price of the 32 TB iBrain from $599 to $399!"
"Pretty cool,huh". - sotose, on 06/26/2008, -0/+1Format c:
Load the thing with porn. -
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