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Matrix-Style Brain Interface Closer To Reality

Posted by timothy on from the be-your-own-neo dept.

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!"

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  1. Re:I'd love one. by moquist · · Score: 2, Offtopic

    ...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.