Ok, while netscape only has about a 5% share of the browser market, that is going to change soon. AOL and compuserve are going to bundle Moz with their clients, and the same people that don't know how to change browsers will be using mozilla. expect numbers to jump up to about 20%.
personally, i'd rather have two browsers for one, allowing a check and balance system for the standards, which are the most important thing anyway.
> Perhaps a patch which goes onto your skin is ok, but directly to your brain cells? Why make yuor braincells attach to a CPU?
Well, this is true- there is no reason nessicarily to have input to a CPU be controlled by your brain cells. However, I think that this shows promise in output from a CPU to your brain, more specificallly, the optic centers of your brain, or anywhere else. I think a HUD or sorts would be fantastic, and I think that you'd have to interface with the brain somehow for this. That or wirelessly controlled contact lenses that emit light. Bam!
But yah, maybe some other body part would workbetter for input into the cpu.
It is clear that the trend of computing is not bigger and better, but smaller and better. In the last 50 years computing has gone from mainframes to PCs to PDAs. This type of research is incredibly important- when you can communicate with a computer outside of your body, then you simply need to wait until the promises of nanotechnology and quantum computing are fulfilled reduce the computer to the point that we can bring it inside our bodies. Coupled with wireless technology and a more robust, more encompassing internet, one that is the main conduit for all media.... Wow. Voice/Text/Video communication, ANYWHERE. Access to news, literature, music, all information, ANYWHERE. The future of computing is seamless and transparent on a scale that we can't imagine yet. This research is a step in this direction.
The issues with this type of computing and communication power are greater than we have ever dealt with before. An adage in computer science is that hardware and software are basically the same thing, software is a slower and more flexible emulation of what hardware can accomplish. As our hardware becomes wetware, and more and more powerful, software will begin to be all of computing. So, I feel that it is critical that this software be open source, that everyone owns it. For all the same reasons that I use open source software on my computer now, I will want to use open source software to run the computer of the future, the one that interacts on a neural level. If we have all the code, we can control to a great extent the ads, the hacking, external control, etc etc. Thoughts?
To this end, I am an undergrad studying computer science and biochemistry. I don't know if this type of technology will be available in my lifetime, but then again, we went from not have airplanes to landing on the moon in 66 years. All computing technology has happened in less than the span of a lifetime. I'm optimistic that with enough conscious people involved in this technology, that we can overcome the many pitfalls and downsides, and harness these ideas in positive and innovative ways!
Also- does anyone know of any other universities that are doing research of this type? I am really interesting in this and nanotechnology. I've been looking around, but I was wondering if anyone was involved or knew of any institutions doing research of this kind. Thanks!
I have read through this thread a bit and some of the comments have forceds me to go from lurking mode to non-lurking mode. I am now going to college, but I grew up on a family farm all my life, and my father was (and is) heavily invovled in Farmers Union. I saw a comment saying that it was high time that family farming went the way of family looms and such, and that really make me angry.
The same monopolistic business practices that we despise in Microsoft and some of the other large software companies are the same type of practices that are putting THOUSANDS of multiple-generation family farmers off the farm every year. Cargill and Continental are every bit as big as Microsoft, and control an unnerving amount of the market share. I think there was an anti-trust case against one of them not too long ago, but I am not sure how it went.
I am all for progress- don't get me wrong. My family uses RoundUp and other chemicals- but they also are very conscience of the concept of stewardship and leaving things better than when you got them. I hope this post made some people realize that family farming and its lifestyle is something that everyone should be able to support. I won't be a farmer after college, I want to be a system or network admin (for now), but I will defend with every last atom of my being family farming and everything behind it.
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Ok, while netscape only has about a 5% share of the browser market, that is going to change soon. AOL and compuserve are going to bundle Moz with their clients, and the same people that don't know how to change browsers will be using mozilla. expect numbers to jump up to about 20%.
personally, i'd rather have two browsers for one, allowing a check and balance system for the standards, which are the most important thing anyway.
> Perhaps a patch which goes onto your skin is ok, but directly to your brain cells? Why make yuor braincells attach to a CPU?
Well, this is true- there is no reason nessicarily to have input to a CPU be controlled by your brain cells. However, I think that this shows promise in output from a CPU to your brain, more specificallly, the optic centers of your brain, or anywhere else. I think a HUD or sorts would be fantastic, and I think that you'd have to interface with the brain somehow for this. That or wirelessly controlled contact lenses that emit light. Bam!
But yah, maybe some other body part would workbetter for input into the cpu.
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It is clear that the trend of computing is not bigger and better, but smaller and better. In the last 50 years computing has gone from mainframes to PCs to PDAs. This type of research is incredibly important- when you can communicate with a computer outside of your body, then you simply need to wait until the promises of nanotechnology and quantum computing are fulfilled reduce the computer to the point that we can bring it inside our bodies. Coupled with wireless technology and a more robust, more encompassing internet, one that is the main conduit for all media.... Wow. Voice/Text/Video communication, ANYWHERE. Access to news, literature, music, all information, ANYWHERE. The future of computing is seamless and transparent on a scale that we can't imagine yet. This research is a step in this direction.
The issues with this type of computing and communication power are greater than we have ever dealt with before. An adage in computer science is that hardware and software are basically the same thing, software is a slower and more flexible emulation of what hardware can accomplish. As our hardware becomes wetware, and more and more powerful, software will begin to be all of computing. So, I feel that it is critical that this software be open source, that everyone owns it. For all the same reasons that I use open source software on my computer now, I will want to use open source software to run the computer of the future, the one that interacts on a neural level. If we have all the code, we can control to a great extent the ads, the hacking, external control, etc etc. Thoughts?
To this end, I am an undergrad studying computer science and biochemistry. I don't know if this type of technology will be available in my lifetime, but then again, we went from not have airplanes to landing on the moon in 66 years. All computing technology has happened in less than the span of a lifetime. I'm optimistic that with enough conscious people involved in this technology, that we can overcome the many pitfalls and downsides, and harness these ideas in positive and innovative ways!
Also- does anyone know of any other universities that are doing research of this type? I am really interesting in this and nanotechnology. I've been looking around, but I was wondering if anyone was involved or knew of any institutions doing research of this kind. Thanks!
I have read through this thread a bit and some of the comments have forceds me to go from lurking mode to non-lurking mode. I am now going to college, but I grew up on a family farm all my life, and my father was (and is) heavily invovled in Farmers Union. I saw a comment saying that it was high time that family farming went the way of family looms and such, and that really make me angry.
The same monopolistic business practices that we despise in Microsoft and some of the other large software companies are the same type of practices that are putting THOUSANDS of multiple-generation family farmers off the farm every year. Cargill and Continental are every bit as big as Microsoft, and control an unnerving amount of the market share. I think there was an anti-trust case against one of them not too long ago, but I am not sure how it went.
I am all for progress- don't get me wrong. My family uses RoundUp and other chemicals- but they also are very conscience of the concept of stewardship and leaving things better than when you got them. I hope this post made some people realize that family farming and its lifestyle is something that everyone should be able to support. I won't be a farmer after college, I want to be a system or network admin (for now), but I will defend with every last atom of my being family farming and everything behind it.
Thanks for listening to me rant. =)
Andrew Giessel
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