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Posted by astroboy on Mar-23-2002 09:41:

OT: Soon we will all be cyborgs

Read this article:
http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/scienc...borg/index.html

Basically some professor in the US got a chip implanted in a nerve in his arm and it records all the electrical impulses (pain, movement etc...) on a computer.
I saw an interview with this dude and he said he hoped he would soon be able to connect his nervous system to an ltrasonic sensor and give himself a sixth sense (not unlike that of a bat). He also said eventually you may be able to attach a chip with some sort of receiver to your optic nerve and receive transmissions from an infra red camera or something. Or you could record electrical impulses related to emotion and use your chip to transmitt them to another person's chip - what better way to tell someone you love them than to send them your emotions.
Anyway this dude's a bit of a tripper - he thinks that in the future we'll all have these enhancements.

Posted by flystyler on Mar-23-2002 15:21:

Yeah i heard about this, and the top robotics bloke in the uk is testing something, so in the future we could all have like a hard drive plugged into our brain, for extra space and stuff. This all sounds way to dodgy. I am scared about the prospects of AI. I just imagin terminator, etc

Posted by El~ZaPo on Mar-23-2002 15:55:

I want a chip that can record my dreams, like in the Final Fantasy movie. Wouldn't that be cool?

Posted by Raptor on Mar-23-2002 16:07:

wow that means we can have a nerve that is connected to a certain part of the hard drive and listen to TRANCE ALL DAY! haha... no more hymning the tune in your head it will be in STEREO.

Posted by biznology on Mar-23-2002 18:53:

yeah last night when i shoulda been sleeping there was some NOVA program on here where they were talking about how as we become more and more dependent on computers we will eventually become part of us. we will be cyborgs walking around that can have a computer scan everyones face we pass and give us information about them...so no one will be a stranger. freaky if you ask me! late/

Posted by AnotherWay83 on Mar-23-2002 19:55:

relax guys...theres no need to jump to conclusions like that...whenever sumthing new comes out everybody start making all these predictions...like when TV came out so many ppl. said radio was gonna die but nothing of the sort happened...i mean im not saying that its not possible, all im saying is that its way too early to jump to conclusions and say that we're all gonna be cyborgs

but it would be cool if they made a real life terminator )(a good one)

peace

Posted by biznology on Mar-23-2002 20:21:

quote:
Originally posted by AnotherWay83
relax guys...theres no need to jump to conclusions like that...whenever sumthing new comes out everybody start making all these predictions...like when TV came out so many ppl. said radio was gonna die but nothing of the sort happened...i mean im not saying that its not possible, all im saying is that its way too early to jump to conclusions and say that we're all gonna be cyborgs

but it would be cool if they made a real life terminator )(a good one)

peace

no im being serious, and so were they. what IS a cyborg? generally we think of them as being super human robots, but the truth is- humans that depend on technology like computers would technically be cyborgs too. the program i was watching was simply discussing how as computers become smaller (so that they can display infromation on your sun or eyeglasses) we will all in a way be cyborgs. im not freaked out about it - its just the truth! late/

Posted by whiskers on Mar-24-2002 00:15:

quote:
Originally posted by Raptor
wow that means we can have a nerve that is connected to a certain part of the hard drive and listen to TRANCE ALL DAY! haha... no more hymning the tune in your head it will be in STEREO.

haha, but the most important thing is that it won't be OFF NOTE!

Posted by Podroom on Mar-24-2002 10:50:

quote:
Originally posted by El~ZaPo
I want a chip that can record my dreams, like in the Final Fantasy movie. Wouldn't that be cool?

I once had that dream....And it was soo COOL...

Love that movie...