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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"Not really, we're testing prototypes of an artificial hippocampus"
yeah, IN RATS!!!
We've already produced computer-generated vision systems for flies, and have had baboons power video games...
That's not saying much though really...
Nova just did a special on the future symbiosis of medicine and technology and covered a lot of cyborg stuff.
They have actually performed a human experiment to create "vision" in a blind woman. All she gets is some phosphene flares that denote boundaries... It works, I'm not suggesting it's never going to happen; however, this woman is very disappointed. She has a permanent implant wedged into her visual cortex, a ribbon of wires coming out the back of her head around to a camera mounted on a pair of glasses, and all she sees is sparkles. And even at that, it is suspect-- it seems to work well for the most fundamental modes of visual cognition (borders, intersections of lines, etc...) However, the cognition of a human was so complex that whatever electrical impulses were being generated by the vision system produced ZERO visual effect... no blurrs, no boundaries, SIMPLY NOTHING.