Linux on the Brain

LinuxNews.com writes "Linux is surfing the curls of the human brain. In a project designed to study cerebral cortex topography as part of the Human Brain Project, Linux is being used to assimilate massive amounts of data--and bring the project in under budget."

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Possible Uses of the Gathered Data

[citizenc]

After reading that article, a question popped into my head: What would we use said data for? My PERSONAL fantasy is that, eventually, we will get to a point where you will simply have to THINK a command, and your mind-reading-hat (or goggles, you get the idea) interprets the neurological impulses, and gives your computer the appropriate commands..

A curious idea, to be sure.. but does anybody else out there think this will EVER happen?

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Re:Possible Uses of the Gathered Data

[technos]

If only for myself and Mr. sorehands, I hope so.

Unfortunatly, as a programmer, I feel the quality of my code will fall drastically. I think three times faster than I type, and that 'delay' allows me to finalize the stream of cerebral crap into usable data. I can see it now:

copen(//slashdot refresh//"/usr/local/drsfile","NT sucks.. Why am I 0", nodenum/2, fucking trolls 71227) = data Where did I put that #2 Phillips ;

Human brain: the next Linux platform

[kdgarris]

I wonder how many Bogomips Linux running on a brain would get?

;-)

-Karl