People linking their brains together to form a global collective intelligence. Humans living well beyond 100 years. Computers uploading aspects of our personalities to a network. These could all happen this century with the proper investments in technology, according to a recent report from the National Science Foundation and the Department of Commerce.
When Brains Meet Computer Brawn
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resistance is futile.
sorry, but I don’tneed some hacker turning me in to a depressed maniac or somthing becasue we are part of some borg like colective.
Hmmm, where do I sign?
ciao
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Like any technology, it all depends on how this is used.
The borg are the most vivid example of the merging of man and machine, but that mught be because it is the most vivid and we can’t get that fear out of our minds. Of course, the fact that Star Trek rocks might also produce this outlook.
But there is also the hope that this could result in an Isaac Asimov type of world, where Robots with human personalities are benevolent, for example.
AFAIK, the original concepts of the Nuclear Bomb came from a project to bring Americans a better source of energy than the conventional ones (coal and oil?) On the other hand, I’m sure Reagan’s Star Wars and the worry that Sputnik paved the way for orbital warfare helped the current, more benevolent goals of NASA.
With the new subharmonically aligned crystal —
You’ll live to be 200!
You will always be at your sexual peak. Yum!
It will make you rich beyond your dreams!
You will never be lonely.
You can have as much love as you want.
And you can watch MindTV (MTV) from any room in the house!
All it takes is to have the “Blue Crystal Love” vibrational amplifier installed in your body using a 100% safe procedure…
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I dunno…I still would not want to let a hacker into my brain.
heh..mabye the riaa will begin to hack folks’ brains so they can delete the memories of songs to keep them from being played back in their head :-p
The Atomic Bomb, or A-bomb, weapon deriving its explosive force from the release of atomic energy through the fission (splitting) of heavy nuclei (see nuclear energy ). The first atomic bomb was produced at the Los Alamos, N.Mex., laboratory and successfully tested on July 16, 1945. This was the culmination of a large U.S. army program that was part of the Manhattan Project , led by Dr. Robert Oppenheimer . It began in 1940, two years after the German scientists Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassman discovered nuclear fission.
http://www.atomicarchive.com/Timeline/Time1940.shtml
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A good start would be a Google brain implant!!!
Aren’t these the same bozo’s who said we’d have colonies on the moon and be driving hover cars by the mid 1990’s, and that we’d have exhausted the entire world supply of oil before the mid 80’s…
I swear some of these government lackeys just make reports like these to make themselves sound important.
Makes you wonder if they just re-hash articles from Popular Science for use as official reports.
[i[People linking their brains together to form a global collective intelligence.[/i]
Over my dead body…
Humans living well beyond 100 years.
Sounds good to me.
Computers uploading aspects of our personalities to a network.
No thanks.
Aren’t these the same bozo’s who said we’d have colonies on the moon and be driving hover cars by the mid 1990’s.
Actually, a colony on the moon might not have been so far off. If the space program kept at about the pace it was going during the space race with the soviets it’s wouldn’t be that unrealistic. Mabye off by 10 or so years but we’d still probley get one. But, ah, our space program seemed to suffer from a heart attack and is still recovering…
Hmmm, where do I sign?
You don’t want to sign. Yet. Do the math, there would be a major overpopulation problem.
Imagine: an annoying assortment of office assistants to help you by getting in your way during routine and rudimentary tasks, product activation every time you try to learn a new skill, and being locked into a blue screen of death anytime you try to do anything more strenuous than watch TV.
There is no way I am going to let the same people that gave me all this “wonderful” technology meddle with my body.
God help those who can’t afford to upgrade…
Imagine being told to reactivate yourself or pay for some kind of subscription services every 6 months! Or lose all your saved information due to changes in their EULA (also every 6 months). Or being hacked every 2 weeks for that matter!
“Hey, let’s play some virtual games”
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“I’m sorry, I am not PC compatible”
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“The fatal exception 0E occurred 0001:1234E in braincontroller.dll”
*G*
We are already facing serious privacy issues with the technoloy we have today. Fear if this becomes reality. Remember the Internet was designed to form collective intelligence, first with the U.S. military, and then global. We have to be carefull online now, much less with our BRAINS, our very defining attribute that seperates us from animals, make no mistake, fear if this happens….
They might be able to save my particular thought patterns for an infinity (but why would they want to? 😉 ), but I will still die.
We’ll NEED our brains linked together just to filter stupid hypothetical trash like this off the net.
It was cool the first 99 times, but I only want to hear about it if it’s already been done.
I would urge every one to periodically Google their name to see what shows up. Sometimes can be embarassing, everything here there & everywhere ends up passing through Google. That used to take 3 months, but Google is moving towards 15mins as their target, from a hiring blurb last yr.
And I have read that some potential employers google as well to see if they are dealing with knowlegeable applicants or what not. I think 1984 is already here.
Perhaps the thing to do would be to flood Google with nonsence, turn every thing into noise. Kind of an arms war.