Comments on: Would you sign up for direct-to-brain broadband?

By: Ted Huntington

Ted Huntington — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 22:36:03 +0000

It would be nice to get direct-to-brain windows – to get sound directly to our ear without needing a headphone – you can see how this would be much more convenient – especially to see every person’s thought-screen – the image they think of – you would know who is a good match for you.

By: Ted Huntington

Ted Huntington — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 22:34:00 +0000

You don’t need any chip implanted in your brain – neuron reading and writing has been, it seems likely, happening since 1810 as shocking and crazy as that sounds. One key was developing dust-sized particle communication devices that can fly. Search for neuron reading and writing – I’ve done a lot of research into it – for example over the last 200 years many people have hinted about it – Andre Maurois, Bermhard Katz, William Crookes, there are many others.

By: Dave

Dave — Sun, 03 May 2009 17:41:54 +0000

Of course the bottleneck of ordinary human communication is an old sci-fi theme. In a more expansive moment in Second Foundation, Asimov gives baseline humans’ inability to ever truly know each other as a reason for the fall of the first Empire.

By: Sarah Ennals

Sarah Ennals — Sun, 03 May 2009 00:19:10 +0000

I'd like one, but then I'd also like the "puts you on autopilot when nothing exciting's going on" implant from Cory Doctorow's Visit the Sins.

By: jon

jon — Sat, 02 May 2009 05:42:15 +0000

I’d do it provided I could leave my email on a separate machine… and that none of the components were made by Microsoft. And I have to confess that I sometimes get frustrated when I’m reading a (physical) book or newspaper and come across an unfamiliar word, and there’s no built-in dictionary or wikipedia to instantly solve the problem.