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Implant a Chip in Your Head

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the what-about-brain-popup-ads dept.

vic_1066 writes "Brain chips sound pretty Orwellian, but the tech has come a long way (Soul eating registration required) in the past few years. Not that I'll be signing up anytime soon to get my head sliced open just for kicks, but if I was massively paralyzed this would be welcome news. If you get a chance, check out Cyberkinetics Inc."

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  1. Sadly... by baudilus · · Score: 4, Insightful

    People that accept these will likely believe it will turn them into Jake 2.0. Sadly, it's more likely to turn them into human RFID tags.

  2. Chips and trips by Hekatchu · · Score: 3, Insightful

    There's nothing new there, but, it's just so surprising that there's so little the world can offer to SciFi litterature, but so much SciFi can offer to reality.

  3. Add that to your resume by Nobody's+Hero · · Score: 5, Insightful

    My only real question in all of this is where is it headed?(mind the pun there) Are all of us tech geeks going to be required to be able to "jack" into the computer systems we administrate in the near future? Will programmers start designing software that allows us to see the layout of our network graphicly in our heads as we sit semi-concious in chairs? Maybe not, but it is a possibilty.

    My curiousity is when will this sort of thing become competitve enough that it will start to be asked for on job applications? When will it get to the point that it is no longer an option but a requirement in order to administer large networks?

    This sort of thing is straight out of movies, like Johny Mnemonic even from role playing games like Shadowrun.

    If this sort of thing comes to fruition would you have a chip installed in your head?

    I know I would.

    But I don't know many others that would comprimise their bodies for a career. Would you?

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    The Only Person Willing to be Me is ME!
  4. Soul eating registration required by bgeer · · Score: 5, Insightful
    If you are concerned about the NYT's registration then why did you cite their version of the story? You people do realize that NYT and TWP just base their science stories on press releases right? I assure you that there is not a single person at NYT who has a degree in neuroscience, and I doubt there are many more than a half-dozen who even have BSes.

    Why therefore do people submit science stories with a link to NYT when they could just link to the source material? This is the frigging internet. You can do just as much research as the press-release-editing typewriter monkey at NYT can.

    For instance, the facts in this story were reported six months ago on ScienceDaily , three months ago on Wired and dozens of other places that could be found in 20-30 seconds on googlage.

    In summary, if you don't like NYT's registration, don't link to it. You are advertising for them.
    </rant>