Dammit, I was just going to do that until I saw your post. I should have sat around hitting refresh on the/. page waiting for a story like this, but instead I was playing video games. I'll tell ya, they really do kill your social life.
I read that link you mentioned, and I don't buy that guy's argument. His two main reasons against brain implants are: 1. Confusion, if a group of people were connected there would be too much going on for us to concentrate. If I'm on an Ethernet network with 20 computers on it, they all broadcast all of the information they send to every computer on the network, but the network cards are smart enough to ignore the message if it isn't for them. This is a very solvable problem and doesn't convince me at all. 2. Safety, why undergo risky surgery if we don't need it to survive? First of all, what if the surgery becomes commonplace in a number of years? Better yet, what if we get to the point where surgery isn't even necessary? Also, the writer seems to just dismiss the whole idea, as if being able to download information to your brain is trivial. I'd think that the director of MIT's Laboratory of Computer Science would be a little more forward thinking. I'm not saying everyone should get brain implants, but his objections are pretty weak.
Is it just me, or is just a little cheesy that 90% of the KDE apps start with the letter K? I mean, I can understand Konqueror, at least it makes sense, but KPacman? KWord? Hasn't this gone far enough? Have I asked enough questions in a row? It just gives me flashbacks of the original Batman series, especially in the movie, where Adam West actually said the words "Robin, hand me the shark-repellant Bat Spray!"
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Dammit, I was just going to do that until I saw your post. I should have sat around hitting refresh on the /. page waiting for a story like this, but instead I was playing video games. I'll tell ya, they really do kill your social life.
I read that link you mentioned, and I don't buy that guy's argument. His two main reasons against brain implants are: 1. Confusion, if a group of people were connected there would be too much going on for us to concentrate. If I'm on an Ethernet network with 20 computers on it, they all broadcast all of the information they send to every computer on the network, but the network cards are smart enough to ignore the message if it isn't for them. This is a very solvable problem and doesn't convince me at all. 2. Safety, why undergo risky surgery if we don't need it to survive? First of all, what if the surgery becomes commonplace in a number of years? Better yet, what if we get to the point where surgery isn't even necessary? Also, the writer seems to just dismiss the whole idea, as if being able to download information to your brain is trivial. I'd think that the director of MIT's Laboratory of Computer Science would be a little more forward thinking. I'm not saying everyone should get brain implants, but his objections are pretty weak.
Is it just me, or is just a little cheesy that 90% of the KDE apps start with the letter K? I mean, I can understand Konqueror, at least it makes sense, but KPacman? KWord? Hasn't this gone far enough? Have I asked enough questions in a row? It just gives me flashbacks of the original Batman series, especially in the movie, where Adam West actually said the words "Robin, hand me the shark-repellant Bat Spray!"
I'd expect to see this in a forward from someone with an AOL account, not on /.