Brain Prosthesis Ready For Testing

jhouserizer writes "New Scientist is reporting that an artificial hippocampus is ready to undergo testing. The leader of the team of scientists is Theodore Berger of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. They hope these artificial hippocampuses can replace damaged (stroke, Alzheimer's, etc.) portions of your brain. I wonder what portions of 'you' would be noticeably different to your family & friends? I wonder how long it will be before we can have HUDs, such as in this story by Cory Doctorow?"

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Re:This is cool.

[Sgs-Cruz]

You know what else is cool? The 'BR' and 'P' tags. Let's try that again, formatted properly...

This is what scientists should do. They should figure out interfaces to each part of the brain. By the time all of this is figured out, nanotechnology, biotechnology and quantum computing will have come a long way and become nearly perfected. Utilizing these technologies, implants would be placed in the brain which connect it to the Internet through all the wireless technologies present, satellites, etc.

They'll put satellites out in space, orbiting all over the planet, so that no matter where you are, you'll get high speed internet access directly from your brain. Your conciousness will spread all over the internet, as will everyone else's. Ten years after this process begins, every human being on the planet will have these implants in their brains. Then, scientists will figure out a way to cause a little bit of evolution so that people will eventually be born with the implants already present. When that is complete, we'll be the Borg.

The only thing they'll have to do after that is put big rocket engines sticking out of two opposite sides of the Earth so that Spaceship Earth really will be a spaceship and we can all fly around the universe without ever leaving our planet. That's also a lot safer than taking spaceships which might have hull breaches or get lost in space or whatever. This way, if we do get lost, who cares? We're still at home anyway, kind of like a turtle.

Oh yeah, and since our sun will stay behind, they'll install big huge lights in the lots of satellites that I talked about a moment ago, and these will provide the light that we need. They'll be bright enough that we won't notice.

Did I mention that we'll also control the weather, the tides, the animals and everything else? Yeah. I think all of this will happen in ten years time. (Or only five or six, if Microsoft goes out of business so that we can stop worrying about all the problems they're causing and concentrate on ADVANCING technology instead of stopping it for the purpose of making a quick buck, or 100 billion, whichever is larger.)

This post is serious. Don't laugh.