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- imLissy, on 07/07/2008, -0/+21I wrote a paper about this stuff in HS about six years ago. Is it almost the future yet?
- Kanele, on 07/07/2008, -2/+18in the future, machines will control our mind... oh wait we've got tv already :V
- ganymede2010, on 07/08/2008, -0/+9Ray Kurzweil has been vindicated once again. There's no doubt that he accurately predicted that no later then 2040 we'll have nanobots swimming in our brains. Enhancing our cognitive abilities beyond comprehension. Virtual reality involving the 5 senses within a simulated tactical environment. Bring it the ***** on, sorry folks but I'm taking the Blue Pill:)
- austang, on 07/07/2008, -0/+8This would cause a lot of problems. I have a hard enough time sharing the t.v. as it is. Changing the channel with your mind will just lead to less sharing and more obesity.
- Ghorkvos, on 07/08/2008, -0/+8Giant brains don't have to piss.
- shauntacular, on 07/08/2008, -0/+7Damn we sure are getting lazy! I want to know how we're going to take a piss in the future!
- FuryOfThor, on 07/07/2008, -0/+7never get tired of these
- copypastry, on 07/08/2008, -0/+6dugg for immortality
- Culyt, on 07/08/2008, -0/+6Well he hopes he will stick around forever.
☢ - tas08, on 07/08/2008, -0/+4So, if artificial limbs will be stronger and faster, how many people will choose to replace their healthy limbs?
- Jo9100, on 07/08/2008, -0/+4Yeah and I heard that by 2000, we'll get flying cars! Can't wait!!
- P5ycHo, on 07/07/2008, -1/+5Sad, but true.
That's why the MSM are pushing someones beliefs instead of plain old news. - pewpewarrows, on 07/07/2008, -2/+5In the future... Computers will run faster!
There, does that qualify me to write a Popular Mechanics article? - copypastry, on 07/08/2008, -0/+3Kurzweil is awesome. Hope he sticks around for a while.
- rojano17, on 07/08/2008, -2/+5In soviet Russia...Baaaah forget it.
- DarkoKun, on 07/08/2008, -0/+3I want my robo penis now!
- Niightwitch, on 07/08/2008, -0/+3Resistance is futile.
- M724, on 07/08/2008, -0/+3One more example of "I'll have to see it to believe it."
- zadadka, on 07/08/2008, -1/+3I don't think so.
Geddit? - Twenty, on 07/08/2008, -0/+2That is absolutely how I read the headline first time around. And then said to myself, "Yep."
- blast_flame, on 07/08/2008, -0/+2@Hangly
Sure they can. Just pump it in. - fryguy1013, on 07/08/2008, -0/+2It's the future right now. Whoops, now it's the present. But the future will be in a few more minutes if you can wait.
- Murrabbit, on 07/08/2008, -1/+3In the future marketing machines will control your mind. Wait, too late, Digg has a whole Apple section!
- JinnRikki, on 07/08/2008, -0/+1You know anyone like that, seriously, I need a date.
- jotux, on 07/08/2008, -1/+2In the future....this story will become old news yet be posted back on digg. People will complain about this, but they will suffer great burying.
- BlockedUser, on 07/08/2008, -0/+1Dugg for "owl monkey on a treadmill control the walking movements of a 200-pound humanoid robot"
- CameronConnor, on 07/08/2008, -0/+1"Im thinking about getting robot Legs... Its a risky operation but it will be worth it."
- danito8, on 07/08/2008, -0/+1Interesting phenomenal.
Well, at this rate of technological growth-trends, something close to that could happen. - samuellclemens, on 07/08/2008, -0/+1Isn't the point of machines that they do the work for us? I would hope that in the future they could control themselves.
- JakeAndersyn, on 07/08/2008, -0/+1Although this is kind of creepy, aren't we inching closer to cyborgdom with the increased array of artiificial parts available for humans?
You tell me if someone with an artifiical heart, cochlear implant, augmented optic nerve, and a replacement hip doesn't meet the definition already. - mal1964, on 07/08/2008, -1/+2I was in the restaurant industry for 25 years
- Asianwaste, on 07/08/2008, -2/+3I guess by Internet Mem logic, the future of Mother Russia involves mechanical overlords.
- M724, on 07/08/2008, -0/+1I felt sorry for you, I wanted to thumb you back up to a zero, but then I read what you wrote.
- lololwut, on 07/08/2008, -2/+3I, for one, welcome our new-wait what?
- BlockedUser, on 07/08/2008, -0/+1Great episode. Bad reference...
- Jayferd, on 07/08/2008, -0/+1I have enough trouble controlling my own mind - I don't need to put the thing in charge of any machines.
- gravisan, on 07/08/2008, -0/+1in the future ~ far far from now we will be using punch cards in a magical machine called a computer!
- drdave1114, on 07/08/2008, -0/+1yea, I can see robots you control with your mind in the near future. I actually met this guy already. he has these 4 robotic arms with partial artificial intelligence, and the whole system links right into his spine. Technology is crazy! On an unrelated note are mutant spider related superpowers are crazy......
- leetneko, on 07/08/2008, -0/+1I, for one, welcome our new food grabbing mechanical monkey overlords.
- inactive, on 07/08/2008, -0/+1When I got my first cyborg appliance (prosthesis to some) I was a young boy and it was over 30 years ago. I controlled that appliance with *gasp* my mind. While all of this is interesting, so far nothing really new has come out of the research labs and into the real world for a very very long time. The thing with the monkeys that way is also at least a decade old, and still no prosthesis has come out that is any better than ones from over 25 years ago, save the ilimb (touchbionics.com), and that is only marginally better (it still uses the same socket and sensors, only the wrist and hand are different).
- Hangly, on 07/08/2008, -0/+1If that's true then they can't get drunk either.
- Hangly, on 07/08/2008, -1/+2Then the RIAA will force whatever company to apply a "security update" to your brain nanites which will compel you to buy $2 trillion* worth of Creed CD's.
Yes, Creed will still be around in the future and will control all of Oceania.
(*Only $40,000 in 2008 dollars.) - bagboyrebel, on 07/08/2008, -0/+1well by definition all of those people you listed are cyborgs, it's just the degree of cyborgism(?) that is changing now.
- Hangly, on 07/08/2008, -0/+1Almost!
- Hangly, on 07/08/2008, -0/+1What the *****? In the future I'll be foraging for wild turnips in the woods behind my house because $1500 a barrel oil and World War III have wiped out civilization.
I will be one of the lucky ones.
These futurists are not basing their predictions on current trends. - inactive, on 07/08/2008, -0/+1In Soviet Russia the Machines control YOU!
- YodaJones, on 07/08/2008, -0/+1I hope we're not talking about the minds of the people who are electing American presidents.
- Sihing, on 07/08/2008, -0/+0Okay, so great article and all, and this kind of stuff is why I'm majoring in Computer Engineering and pre-medical. But, the headline is kind of bogus about the mention of animal testing. People are going to get the idea that you're strapping a big bread board to a monkeys skull and solder some prosthesis to his body. Seriously? As cool and "sci-fi" as it seems. Please be a little less outlandish with your headline. The monkeys that they're doing this testing with aren't even attached to the machine they're operating, and they have a few TINY electrodes to read clusters of neurons in the brain to map motor activity in the motor cortex of the brain.
Great post, I'm going to digg it, but still man... don't get PETA douche bags concerned over the wording of the article, science has come a long way and the press usually screws it up for us by choosing the wrong words.
As for trixter, this is actually really new technology... mapping the nerve centers of the brain to interpret actions, movements, and thoughts isn't what you think it is. It's way further advanced than that. - ganymede2010, on 07/08/2008, -1/+1Why anyone would digg down your eloquent response is beyond me. Further proof that maybe the machines should take over;)
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