Sounds cool


http://gizmodo.com/5813821/...-expansion-for-brain

pop the cover off
find open slot

Horrifyingly cool!

I want one, but people shouldn't have things like that.

(Conflicted much, Zeb?)

I want that.

The most impressive thing I think, is not so much the technology, but that fact that the brain can interface with it and use it as its own. It somehow recognizes additional storage space, that is awesome.

I wonder, though, it might be like you need to "think" your way over to that memory space.

Like thinking of an icecream cone balanced on a purple-zebra's nose will allow you to remember how to fly a helicopter. or whatever is in that 'space'. Might be VERY 'individual".

Memes would be interesting to spread this way... or virii... "Thought virii"! Aieeee!


We'll 'know' more, but will we be "smarter"?

No, the ability to recall facts do not make one "smart".

Wait till they make it bluetooth and you can only remember a skill when your at work. Lose your job lose your skills.

My dream to become Mega Mind is now reality! Im waiting for the Terabyte version to come out.

quote Originally posted by Jake_Dragon: Wait till they make it bluetooth and you can only remember a skill when your at work. Lose your job lose your skills.

That's a disturbing possibility, would open a new avenue for confidentiality agreements in the workplace.

Just imagine the possibility someone dies in a crime , we can pull there memory and find out who did it. Or they can come Preloaded with encyclopedias of information.

There is a book in this somewhere

Ok, what the article title says and what they are actually doing are 2 different things... IIRC, the last study I heard said that the storage limits of the human brain are far from being reached. Using memory chips with information to transfer said information to the brain so you can "learn" something is far, far different from expanding the storage capabilities of the brain. If there's a memory that we have after the device is implanted, what's determining where it's being stored?

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quote Originally posted by FieroRumor: I wonder, though, it might be like you need to "think" your way over to that memory space. Like thinking of an icecream cone balanced on a purple-zebra's nose will allow you to remember how to fly a helicopter. or whatever is in that 'space'. Might be VERY 'individual".

This is what I'm thinking about. Want to learn to fly a helicopter or speak a different language? Buy the memory chip, and ZAP! Hablar español inmediatamente!

quote We'll 'know' more, but will we be "smarter"?

We'd have to redefine "smart".

Hmmmm, I can have a lot of programs on my computer. I can fill up the hard drive.

Until I run "setup" on each one of them however they are just meaningless files on a hard drive.

Brad

The singularity has arrived.

A lot of the 'what if's of this technology were explored in the anime 'Ghost in the Shell' scary stuff.

Johnny Mnemonic comes to mind. Couriers to deliver classified information.

While not real, they had a similiar idea in the Shadow Run game. It was called Skill Softs. You used a Data Jack to plug in the Skill Soft and your brain could use the information to perform whatever skill was on the Skill Soft.

Intersting really. I wonder if I will ever see it become used before I'm gone.

Having the information and actually being able to act on it are two different things. You can implant a chip in my head to teach me to be a martial arts black belt...but I think I would have second thoughts about the time I tried to do the splits ala Jean Claude Van Damme and wound up with a broken pelvis and my testicles shoved half way up my ass.