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Human Chip Implant Info
CNN is currently running an article about the realities of human chip implant, and how soon it will come. Warwick, a professor at the University of Reading, had a chip implanted last Aug 24., and talks about the uses for chip implanting. Heck, I just want to be able to read my e-mail over my field of vision.
Homer Simpson has a Pentium II in his head!
Oh great. The first microchip implanted and they use it like a radio collar. This does not bode well for society.
As for whether it's really the first microchip or not, I'm not sure. A pacemaker might not actually contain a microchip (may just be a simple machine that doesn't do any real processing).
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This thing Warwick had implanted is just a proximity badge... only it's embedded in his arm. No thanks. I like being able to remove my badge, and I'd personally rather not have my every move tracked. My Visa and my Cell phone do that quite well enough, I think.
His daughter was right. He is crazy.
I can't wait to see babies with Win98 stickers on there heads. Intel too.
I firmly expect to see this referenced as 'proof' rather soon... 8^P
Both my dogs and both my cats have had these microchips for years. Every freakin' vet and pound in the country (USA) have devices capable of causing my pets' microchips to generate an "electric current, which the chips use to send out an identifying signal, which the computer recognizes as being" my little friends.
scott
Can I get a Yoohoo dispenser implanted?
I definitely hope the source and design of these things become open to the public. Otherwise, who knows what secret functionality or backdoors will be implanted.
:-)
How's that for paranoia?
Why read E-mail on your field of vision when you can just *KNOW* it? IRC suddenly becomes telepathy. Do you really want some ghostly voice in your head going "You've got Mail(tm)"?
How about an agent that runs and collects your current train of thought and finds similar matches on the web, making it possible for you to just KNOW all that content? Do that enough and how do you define where the human ends and the computer begins? Will there be a difference?
Give biochips a few years and we'll be there. Progress is inevitable.
no reason to implant it in his body. A cheap publicity stunt.
Perhaps instead of E-mail in your field of vision, a bit of spam. Maybe a commercial for dog biskets played continuously, day and night, in Tagalog.
If it is power, you'll not be the only one to get it. It'll just raise the status quo.
although, if it's possible, it's inevitible. but I'll hold out as long as I can.
etc, etc. Just put me down as a nay.
Can we say David Webber's "Mutineer Moon."
Cant wait till bioenhancements and implants.
It's get's power from an outside source (at
close proximity) to which it simply responds
with one unary signal: an ID.
Not exaclty the bionic man.
The first thing I would like to see out of this technology is a math co-processor for my brain. I myself am not that quick in math (i understand the concepts, but the numbers dont process too fast in my grey matter). if we were able to get some good math processing power in our brains combined with the incredible parallelism of the human brain, well damn, it'd be like the next step in mind evolution. after that, I would want full spectrum visual implants, with full filtering capabilities, range finder, targeting solution subsystem...muhahahah....
:)
Maybe for 9 days he could just walk up and get gas without paying!
"Somebody oughta remove the probe from his butt!" -- Harry Solomon, Third Rock From the Sun
What puzzles me is that he could have put the same functionality into a watch and skipped the surgery. It would sorta be like a Star Trek communicator badge. But then again, that would make sense, so why would he do that.
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I don't know why he claimed that he was the first to have a microprocessor implanted in himself. What about pacemakers and those implantable defibrolators?
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Where do we sign up??
Actually pacemakers do some pretty impressive amounts of work, given the device parameters (size, power usage, I/O requirements, analysis, etc.).
Wow... And to think... When I used to play Cyberpunk and Shadowrun I always *dreamed* about one day having a SPU running in my crainum with a data port so that I could "Jack-In" to the Matrix. Woe is me. I'm not going to be the first. Where can I sign up to be the first person to be *permantly* implanted? Think about the possibilities... Never need that little black book anymore. Never have to worry about cramming for an exam. Just upload baby! Wait till the stuff like in the ShadowTech book is available for all the rest of the Drek-heads like me. I'll have to invest in that $ to NuYen converter I've been dreaming about. *sigh* Back to reality...
Clinton made me a Republican. Bush made me a Libertarian. Trump is making me question reality.
A lot of these comments are saying the same things: An implant that functions as a readily-available proximity ID badge is stupid!
That's not the point, folks. Of course there are better ways of doing that. This experiment serves to show that implants that perform more advanced functions can be done. People hearing about what he's done will start seeing that useful implants are right there on the horizon, hopefully furthering research into the area and helping people overcome the psychological issues surrounding the use of such things.
Imagine an implant reporting your medical status (blood sugar, blood pressure, perhaps heart rate, respiration, chemistry, etc.) at regular intervals. Information gathered this way could be immensely useful to you and your doctors.
Also, like stated in the article, implants could be used to augment or work with your nervous system to control prosthetics and devices in the external world (like computers, lights, doors, etc.).
There are hundreds and thousands of potential uses for this technology. Just because he's just using it as an ID badge doesn't mean the technology is worthless. Look at the big picture here, guys. This experiment just shows that computerized implants are realistic and feasible.
Just to clear up: modern pacemakers do have a good deal of data processing capabilities in them. New models have a feature (not of the MS kind) that let them adjust the hearbeat rate according to physical activity, so that the heart behaves more like a normal heart, instead of sending a fixed signal.
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Imagine being able to listen to your favourite music without the bulky headphones. Just upload the MP3s, and tag along. - And make sure you're not thinking hard about anything else when you do, lest you don't mind having the music skip frames during "high brain utilisation" -. Heh.
In Soviet Russia, Jesus asks: "What Would You Do?"
Am I the only one who noticed that the chipmaker refused to be identifide ?
Yo. Linus. What kinda CPU is it REALLYYYYYY ?
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We can't read minds yet, much less "inject" thoughts into somebody's head. We've
got a long way to go before we can make sense out of anything the brain does...
Tell that to
Russ Wuertz.
How about an agent that knows what your thinking and posts that information to the web for other people to read?
Oops, I scared myself.
I started with nothing and I still have most of it.
...if they didn't sound like they were using the chip a somekind of human tracking device. I wouldn't want someone to be able to just look me up and track my migration like I was somekind of polar bear in the Arctic.
...for more than a few seconds, anyhow.
True, direct neural-silicon interface is a bit more complicated than working out the physics of flight, but I don't think it will be a hundred years until we understand our noodles.
AI will probably help a lot with sorting out this kind of information, and the rate of progress will take off at an even steeper slope than what we've got now.
The real question isn't when, but why. I vacillate between excitement and dread when I think of where technology is going. The thought of augmenting my wetware with hardware gives me shivers, both good and bad. Even now, with super-fast, super-vast databases, I tingle with eagerness at the thought of all the information to be managed. At the same time, though, it bothers me that big brother can fairly accurately keep tabs on where I am and what I'm doing, in a general sense. "Hrm, he charged gasoline and several cases of beer in Boston on Friday, so he's probably visiting his friends for the weekend."
Yes, I could use cash, and I could move to a shack in Montana, but I *like* technology. It's who I am.
Ack. Perhaps I should reinvent myself. Heh. I may have to, if the Y2K-TEOTWAWKI folks are correct.
A host is a host from coast to coast...
Unless it's down, or slow, or fails to POST!
I think they have the wrong show.
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It would be nice to have an embedded processor and a few gigs of memory added to the old bean. Just think of all the stuff you would never forget again - and all the things you could do without the need to carry around a bunch of devices. No visors, no laptops, no cell phones, no credit cards, no beepers, and no PDAs. Brings to mind the RPG CyberPunk.
:)
Too bad the full potential is all pie in the sky for now. When (if?) it does finally arrive, I'll bet people would risk their lives to gain that kind of power. Myself included - after beta testing of course
I want to have my brain implanted into the *computer*. Still haven't found a way to surgically remove my body tho. *sigh*
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Yup, a nice data port socket right behind my ear :) Walk up to any computer and just 'plug in' ... Ahhhhh The cure for Carpal Tunnel, the ultimate in Multitasking ....
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Someday
Sure, there are some usefull applications of this stuff, (wetdrives, replacing damaged nerve paths, and stuff from that previous article about the brain-sensors and implants.) but the demonstration this guy gave would be more likely to get applied in prisons for keeping track of prisoners and enforcing curfew.
Seriously, what does his chip do? It reports his location and ID to sensors in the building. Do you really want to be permanently stuck with something like that? I'd rather carry ID like that outside of my body, thanks.
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Any chip that is implanted is certian to have IP rights owned by some big corp. Dealing with copyright and patenting laws in software is bad enought, I really don't want to deal with these kind of controls when it comes to my body. Further, if implanting chips becomes common it opens us up to a whole new era of surveillance and loss of privacy - it would be a trivial matter to put GPS (or whatever) into an implanted chip, and the NSA (or FBI, etc) will claim that they will only be used to find missing children.
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I think that this technology might be useful for dedicated functions, but some of the ideas being floated here about implanted PCs, I think are fanciful. How do you upgrade, add more RAM, or secondary storage? With the pace of PC development you would need to have a zipper at the implant site. In order to have a Gateway style Your-ware program you would need to put a surgeon on retainer. Imagine having to wait at the doctor's office in order to get a defective unit repaired or replaced.
"They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown." - Carl Sagan
If I can't turn the damn thing off -- if I can't *take* it off -- I don't want it.
I want to download MP3s directly into my brain... mmmmm lots of live They Might Be Giants bootlegs...
"... I declare our city to be a free and independent state to be named Tri-Insula!" --Fernando Wood, Mayor of NYC 1861
...Exactly what I have been thinking since I first heard about it.
The pacemakers that I have seen are very sophisticated. Many have a coil antenna inside the case that can be used to communicate with a good old PC through a simple transceiver plugged into the serial port. Logged data about the heart, pacemaker battery status and such can be dumped, and new operating parameters can be sent back.
Now, when it can do something other than transmit: HEY! PERSON #435823 IS APPROACHING, then there might be some potential.
Let's face it, the real breakthrough will not be getting a chip into someone (oooh...we know how to sterilize stuff) but getting a chip into someone that actuall has an interface to living tissue.
How about it? Anyone up for designing an interface that links to your optic or aural nerves? To hell with reading my email; I want to watch South Park.
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Wage Slave Journal
"Hello, Professor Warwick," his PC announced when Warwick
crossed the threshold of his office"
Arrgh.. the talking doors of Sirius Cybernetics
in the Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy.. why do I feel
like Marvin all of a sudden?
(but I _would_ like to get a two-way implant for improving my memory!)
What measures are they taking to stop the body from rejecting the chip? It isn't natural... but that's not to say it's wrong.
- Hugh Buchanan
- Userfriendly.com
I'd love to have a chip in my arm. Think linux could be ported to some kind of medical implant?
Then I could sit in #weirdness on the undernet and
tout the fact that BitchX is running in my biceps.
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