Linked by Nicholas Blachford on Thu 19th Feb 2004 20:06 UTC
No, I'm not going all "New Age" on you, this time I'm looking at how computers are going to get a 3rd dimension and how this will change the way we interact with them. The previous parts of this series have been based on extrapolations or previous history. This time I'm looking further forward, when technologies currently in long term development become available and open up a whole new realm of possibilities.
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Yes, neural interfaces are progressing, but the actual ability to decode the numerous electrical impulses of the brain, to re-represent them, and to re-transmit them through the brain which will always simultaneously have natural, non-artificial electrical activity in any meaningful, non-destructive manner is a long way off.
Not really, we're testing prototypes of an artificial hippocampus (http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993488), the center of short term memory. It isn't too much to envision such a device being networked, allowing someone to, say, query the internet in the same way they query their short term memory.