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Originally posted by: Jehovah
The implications of this technology, while great for the OP, is just frightening.
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Or what about creating a physical "backup" of all your thoughts/memories? Would lawyers be able to access it or would it be part of your right to privacy? Would you be able to use said back-up to "restore" a brain after being damaged?
 
Originally posted by: icejunkie
Originally posted by: Yossarian
oh man I have to get that installed so I can kick ass when Battlefield 2 comes out
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i was just thinking along those lines. how well can he move the cursor? i mean there is no arm, wrist, nerves, muscle in the way so can he do it like instantly and quicker? that would seriously be hot...
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I'd have to assume that someone implanted with this kind of tech at an early age would be incredibly profficient with it, just like a normal arm/hand etc. Unethical? Probably, for now.
 
Is this seriously true. Can it even be done?? If so, I think that the "reading" done by the computer would have a large margin of error unless the nodes were connected directly into the synapsis of the brain, which is more than likely still not possible.
 
Doesn't really surprise me.

This could be kind of a double edged sword though. Just think, you're sitting there watching a chick flick with your gf on tv and your brain changes the channel to the porno playing on another channel. That's no good.
 
Originally posted by: GTaudiophile
Originally posted by: Jehovah
The implications of this technology, while great for the OP, is just frightening.
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Or what about creating a physical "backup" of all your thoughts/memories? Would lawyers be able to access it or would it be part of your right to privacy? Would you be able to use said back-up to "restore" a brain after being damaged?
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Right now it's just reading simple muscle commands. Meaning every signal you send is fully under your conscious control.
 
So if it reading the brain waves how long before we can "send" signals the brain could understand. It would be nice to go to download info to a usb device, plug it in, and access the knowledge. Even better if you could download progs that have been harvested from individuals.

Want to think like Steven Hawkings? Download it.
Need to be familiar with a certain city? Download it.
Need to know how to do heart surgery? Download it.
 
How did you get those characters in your title? 😀

Edit: i'll just put 'em in my sig so i can use 'em later 😀
 
Originally posted by: Phokus
How did you get those characters in your title? 😀

Edit: i'll just put 'em in my sig so i can use 'em later 😀
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Oh no. I smell the next fad coming soon.
 
Originally posted by: QuitBanningMe
So if it reading the brain waves how long before we can "send" signals the brain could understand. It would be nice to go to download info to a usb device, plug it in, and access the knowledge. Even better if you could download progs that have been harvested from individuals.

Want to think like Steven Hawkings? Download it.
Need to be familiar with a certain city? Download it.
Need to know how to do heart surgery? Download it.
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Matrix anyone? Me and my friends always used to joke around before a huge math test how we'd just love to be able to download the knowledge just like in the Matrix...

Thing is, knowledge and applying it are 2 different things. I'm sure you couldn't just go perform heart surgery even if you had the knowledge. Same with my math example, I have the knowledge to add, subtract, multiply and divide and knew all the rules for the sepcific math problems I was doing, but you can still err (add instead of subtract).

I don't know how clear I am on that, though 😕
 
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