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Matrix-Style Brain Interface Closer To Reality
atkulp writes "According to this Wired article, a private company, Cyberkinetics is seeking permission from the FDA to test a product called BrainGate that implants in the brain and can control actions on a computer. So far it works for monkeys and they'd like to see it as viable for quadriplegics and others in need. How soon until anyone can become the ultimate expansion card? Sign me up!"
i skipped lunch because mom is making mamwhiches for dinner!!!!~1
If it can grow hair on my back, distend my belly and make me.. otherwise.. like Ron Jeremy, sign me up!
"I think I brained my damage"... "And the scientists gave me this spiffy nerd outfit!!"
Slashdot of my neal penis, meet to the cowboy and the lob
anal probes still in development
Code Blue Screen anyone?
projects ready to goo? eye gas we're all fauxking happIE about that?
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I guess I better get to filing a patent on my brain now. I wouldnt want SCO to say they own the rights to my thought process years later, or M$ sueing me because by telling someone what I thought I violated the EULA.
"why don't you just slip into something more comfortable...like a coma!"
...but sometimes low bandwidth and high latency help to encourage more careful thinking, resulting in higher quality.
Compare the quality of thought in the average email today (ignoring the ones about your P3N15) to the average handwritten letter, and you'll see what I mean.
I think the above post about how the mind wanders is apropos; I don't think I want just *everything* from my mind able to fall right out without some sort of filter, and the fingers and the keyboard make a pretty decent filter.
Perhaps more importantly, I don't want to have to see all the junk that spills out of somebody *else's* mind when they have Brain Broadband.
Sean Kennedy is The Fucking Man!
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I like happy endings as well, but it just seemed a little too far fetched that just reading the deactivation codes would shut it down. Personally, I would have liked to see more of the post-computer world, and even a kind of symbiosis where the system is used, but not trusted. Plus, an ending like that could end on a Outer Limits style cliffhanger.
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