Glass Technology
If your point wasn't "advancing technology is too dangerous", then you're right, I did miss it entirely. =P
Technology is always dangerous. take fire, for example. Really freakin useful if you're in rural Russia in December, but dangerous.
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| A little too 1984? what does that mean? lol what do you propose the human interact with instead of a screen of some sort? |
I was referring to the screens all over the place. On everything. I wouldn't like it.
I think it's cool that when the chinese girl approaches, the sign turned to her language. A non-screen couldn't do that!
Well, comparing fire to chips in brain is not fair. A fire couldn't destroy humanity, but a computer virus could if everyone had a chip in brain that was connecting them to the global network.
What about nuclear? It easily has the potential to destroy all life on earth, but when used correctly it can also provide huge amounts of power that can be used instead of more destructive power production methods.
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| If your point wasn't "advancing technology is too dangerous", then you're right, I did miss it entirely. =P |
That wasn't my point. Of course advancing technology is dangerous in some cases and most of the time it's worth the risk. What I'm saying is society is accepting being plugged in without recognizing and mitigating the risks of the social network that has emerged so suddenly. Never before has so much info been available at our fingertips bad and good... and so much exposure into our lives. Look at the effects it's had on society so far. Some good, some bad, but either way it has caused a dramatic change. My point is that this sort of technology should have been implemented with care and it has not been.
Saying your for a chip in your head so you can access something remotely or perform advanced computation that you'll never need to is ridiculous. What's that going to do.... save you a few minutes a day? Your other examples of technology are completely irrelevant... we're talking chips in your head here, integrated right into your brain. You are exposing your self to COMPLETE control by some else. Sure there are measures that can be put in place to secure you... but as we all know someone will break them. Putting a chip in your head is really the equivalent to reducing your immune system dramatically or completely wiping it out. You're wide open to attack.
Also, it's a specific generation that would be for this... the generation that is now used to being plugged into so much info and doing things so easily and surely if this technology became available it would be too quickly adopted without thinking of the consequences... then one day some 13 year old Russian boy just starting puberty named Boris throws a temper tantrum, hacks it and inserts essentially a human self destruct sequence and good bye humanity.
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| Putting a chip in your head is really the equivalent to reducing your immune system dramatically or completely wiping it out. You're wide open to attack. |
How so? How would they get to this chip? You sure you aren't falling into this trap: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EverythingIsOnline
Aren't we talking about this chip being wired into the global network? If not then obviously that's a completely different story and what would be the point.
I think what was meant was that the chip could just send out signals like "phone turn on, call joe" (not receive them).
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- advanced prosthetics
- computer assisted memory (think actual photographic memory)
- remote control over other objects (via a physical link or otherwise -- think 1-way communication like a remote for a TV)
- telecommunications
- schedulers / alarm clocks (never worry about forgetting something important)
- any other cool thing you can do with a computer. It'd basically be like having access to a computer all the time without the hassle of carrying it around or interfacing with it.
There's also research benefits too. Imagine how some kind of logging system or the like could help researchers understand the workings of the human body and/or mental/physiological diseases.
And that's just off the top of my head. I'm sure in time even more creative ideas would come about.
I generally don't like permanent body modifications, and I think this counts as a permanent modification. If for any reason I don't like it and decide to remove it, that could be a riskier operation than installing it in the first place.
If this thing were a removable headset that would read brainwaves and transmit that data only while a physical switch was depressed and/or transmit incoming data to an eyepiece, then I might be interested in it.
-Albatross
If this thing were a removable headset that would read brainwaves and transmit that data only while a physical switch was depressed and/or transmit incoming data to an eyepiece, then I might be interested in it.
-Albatross
Maybe brain implants could be created using nanorobots? Then no intrusive surgery would be needed.
Because the human brain is so hugely complex, it would be either extremely difficult or impossible to "control" someone else.
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| we're talking chips in your head here, integrated right into your brain. You are exposing your self to COMPLETE control by some else. |
Because the human brain is so hugely complex, it would be either extremely difficult or impossible to "control" someone else.
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I like the idea of nanobots even less, actually. It strikes me as a bit too hard to control. :/
-Albatross
-Albatross
@Disch,
Now it's sounding more like the Combine from Half-Life. But actually, I agree with you, it would be really cool. Sorry to go back to Half-Life, but it would sure be nice to have a computer in your brain that tells you when you've been poisoned or have lacerations or fractures ([edit]obviously pain tells you all those things, too, but it would be useful to have a computer in your brain that could diagnose specific problems on-the-fly). Also, it could have a way of detecting nutrition entering the body. It would store a table of otpimum values (calculated based on your body mass rather than using GDAs) and tell you what to eat more/less of. Also really cool would be if the computer could put your brain to sleep and then take control of your nervous system temporarily so that you could exercise while you slept. Everyone would be incredibly healthy.
Now it's sounding more like the Combine from Half-Life. But actually, I agree with you, it would be really cool. Sorry to go back to Half-Life, but it would sure be nice to have a computer in your brain that tells you when you've been poisoned or have lacerations or fractures ([edit]obviously pain tells you all those things, too, but it would be useful to have a computer in your brain that could diagnose specific problems on-the-fly). Also, it could have a way of detecting nutrition entering the body. It would store a table of otpimum values (calculated based on your body mass rather than using GDAs) and tell you what to eat more/less of. Also really cool would be if the computer could put your brain to sleep and then take control of your nervous system temporarily so that you could exercise while you slept. Everyone would be incredibly healthy.
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I don't like the nuclear family stereotype in that ad, living in their clinical white display home.
Anyway, people want too much from technology... the future only looks exciting until it gets here. And then people get used to it and some company makes a new futuristic video for people to salivate over. I say keep it simple :)
Anyway, people want too much from technology... the future only looks exciting until it gets here. And then people get used to it and some company makes a new futuristic video for people to salivate over. I say keep it simple :)
Sometimes I want to go in a cave in the mountains and live off of the land. But then I remember I'm not a bear :(
I once saw a documentary about this guy who lived among the bears for a few summers. He was eaten, eventually.
I heard about him... they ate him and his fiancé or something.
Edit: it was this guy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Treadwell
Edit: it was this guy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Treadwell
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