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2005-10-26 Home Front: WoT

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Posted by God Save The World AKA Oztralian 2005-10-26 03:07|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I'm pretty sure I read where the Iran Government
was attempting to create an army of super-human troops thanks to a chip implanted on their shoulders

Posted by classer 2005-10-26 05:28|| 2005-10-26 05:28|| Front Page Top

#2 Lol, classer. There is no doubt you're right, lol.

Posted by .com 2005-10-26 05:58|| 2005-10-26 05:58|| Front Page Top

#3 I think it would be more urgent to design a brain chip for actors, musicians and MSM journalists given how poorly their natrural, carbon-based brains work.

Posted by JFM">JFM 2005-10-26 09:10|| 2005-10-26 09:10|| Front Page Top

#4 Somehow i don't see soldiers lining up to have chip implants. This is just stupid. After the army did tests in the 50s, and some folks think they're continuing tests with the innoculations, to imagine that they'll let somoen remove a chunk of the brain to put a chip in. Not gonna happen.

Build that chip into the helmet, or other gear and find a way to allow the brain to access it and you might have something, even then there will be serious paranoia issues to contend with.

If they can take depleted uranium and make such a big deal out of it imagine the mind-controlled soldiers articles we'll see.

Posted by rjschwarz 2005-10-26 09:29|| 2005-10-26 09:29|| Front Page Top

#5 I think I'm with RJ on this. The Paleos are a good example of chip implantated killbots gone horribly wrong.

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2005-10-26 09:32|| 2005-10-26 09:32|| Front Page Top

#6 I have to disagree.

I have been saying for years that impants are the next logical step.

They merely have to be proven to provide an advantage in areas that people consider advantageous. Better memory, quicker responses, things that carry over to civilian life.

Once they are proven people will line up in droves. Faster if communications could be wired in as well. What woman could resist having her cell phone in her head???

I'm not saying this is a good thing, merely that it will happen. Cyborgs are coming whether we like it or not.

Posted by DanNY 2005-10-26 09:39|| 2005-10-26 09:39|| Front Page Top

#7 I just want to be able to control the TV with my brain. Picking up that remote control is a lot of work.

Posted by Steve">Steve 2005-10-26 10:03|| 2005-10-26 10:03|| Front Page Top

#8 I call bullshit, because the article doesn't directly link the US military to this project.

Then again, there's the dark side -- all those memories you wish you could forget?

Posted by Edward Yee 2005-10-26 10:05|| http://edwardyee.fanworks.net]">[http://edwardyee.fanworks.net] 2005-10-26 10:05|| Front Page Top

#9 If this work proves to be as successful, experiments should one day be carried out on the Researchers, would be better.

Posted by SwissTex 2005-10-26 10:18|| 2005-10-26 10:18|| Front Page Top

#10 Aussies, why do they hate us?

Posted by jimwebb9">jimwebb9 2005-10-26 10:48|| http://Technochitlins.com]">[http://Technochitlins.com] 2005-10-26 10:48|| Front Page Top

#11 Cochlear implants are a reality, ask Rush. The rest is R&D for other enhancements.

Posted by Fligum Phereth7810 2005-10-26 10:53|| 2005-10-26 10:53|| Front Page Top

#12 El Rushbo as the poster child for super-soldier chip implants.

I like it, I can hear knickers knotting throughout the Democratic Underground.

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2005-10-26 11:02|| 2005-10-26 11:02|| Front Page Top

#13 I'd swear me ex had this implant. She never forgot anything...dammit

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2005-10-26 11:23|| 2005-10-26 11:23|| Front Page Top

#14 RJ nailed it, rather than brain implants some brain communiocation technology.

Nano-tech development makes all possible. Just an injection with brain enhancing nanobots could bring the same desired results with less of that troublesome cranial invasion.

EP

Posted by ElvisHasLeftTheBuilding 2005-10-26 11:40|| 2005-10-26 11:40|| Front Page Top

#15 This is a joke, right? Or a gullible reporter (but I repeat myself).
"We're working on a way to make your computer go faster. Electrical signals travel faster in copper than semiconductors, so we just jumper this paperclip across the CPU connectors and voila--it goes faster!"

Posted by James">James 2005-10-26 11:44|| http://idontknowbut.blogspot.com]">[http://idontknowbut.blogspot.com] 2005-10-26 11:44|| Front Page Top

#16 Kurt Russell was in this movie. It really sucked...

Posted by tu3031 2005-10-26 11:49|| 2005-10-26 11:49|| Front Page Top

#17 I think the left would go for it. Think of all the 'far-out trips' they could relive from back in the 60's....

Anyone read 'The Terminal Man'?

Posted by CrazyFool 2005-10-26 11:50|| 2005-10-26 11:50|| Front Page Top

#18 James,

Are you familiar with the cochlear implant? It transfers audio information to the audio nerves (go to bottom bor diagram). There is no reason a similar mechanism could not be discovered for other parts of the nervous system as well. But note that the cochlear implant was developed 30 years ago. There is nothing comparable yet for vision, though researchers have no doubt been busting their chops to be the first. But it's only a matter of time.

Hooking into "memory" would obviously be yet more difficult. But 105 years ago man could only fly in a hot air balloon. The boomers or X'ers will probably be the last generation to die without widespread significant electronic enhancement.

Posted by Grigum Ulaimp5775 2005-10-26 12:08|| 2005-10-26 12:08|| Front Page Top

#19 Frank.. Considering current computers... that woman would have one hot chest. It would need to be fully exposed to provide proper cooling to those large implants.

Posted by 3dc 2005-10-26 12:08|| 2005-10-26 12:08|| Front Page Top

#20 I dont know about memory augmentation but chips are coming sooner than later. I have been seeing pieces of stuff since the early 90's on chips in monkey brains that make them able to move robot arms with thought. And I dont mean up and down only I mean fluidly like you move your arm with training by listing to the signals of your brain as it moves your arm the recording recognizing those when even their is no arm moving just the thought of. Imagine a day when you are about to die the abulance shows up slices both sides of the neck hooks up to the machine to keep your brain living to the main veins, takes you to the hospitol pops in a chip then after a fews years of rehibilitation you are cyborg on a robot body. You would basicly exist as a brain cube ready to be inserted into X machine huminode tank airplane space plane ect... no body means a little bit of air supply and food will go along way. It sounds sci-fi but it is actually just a couple of years away. They now have fake arms and legs that do this through sensors on the outside of the skull dulling the signal wont be long and those will be like the monkeys in the brain pure signal multiple chips. As far as the living on machine stuff thats been around for quite sometime just a matter of some money and miniterize. It would be expensive but hell you would live for a couple hundred years so who cares if it comes with 100yr financing plan.

The problem I see is two fold, is popualtion control and how the hell would the US keep the LLL's from deciding it the US moral requirement to enhance the entire world???

Posted by C-Low 2005-10-26 12:12|| 2005-10-26 12:12|| Front Page Top

#21 I said it would be yet more difficult, but augmentation is going to happen. Exactly when for what is unknown.

I am a bit more sceptical about interest in living a couple of hundred years. I would be curious to see the current distribution of anti-depressants by age. If people could live a couple of hundred years, George W and Tom J could still be among us. While that might make for entertaining dinner parties, I'm not sure how much they would appreciate what the world has become. Or would they have prevented it?

Posted by Grigum Ulaimp5775 2005-10-26 12:38|| 2005-10-26 12:38|| Front Page Top

#22 A time when the abandonment of the human form is reality is less than 100 years away.

Once memory storage and computation move from the traditional human brain to offsite or removable or networked facilities we will have the capability to choose our own form and function human or otherwise.

For a price.

Metaphysical debates in 5, 4, 3, 2

EP

Posted by ElvisHasLeftTheBuilding 2005-10-26 13:55|| 2005-10-26 13:55|| Front Page Top

#23 Oh, boy! More fun stuff!

Remote Control Device 'Controls' Humans

Posted by tu3031 2005-10-26 14:34|| 2005-10-26 14:34|| Front Page Top

#24 I'd swear me ex had this implant. She never forgot anything...dammit

women are genetically superior.

Posted by lotp 2005-10-26 15:01|| 2005-10-26 15:01|| Front Page Top

#25 Researchers at the University of Southern California's bio-engineering department have created the chip, which acts in exactly the same way as the hippocampus - the part of the brain that deals with memory.

"We are the Borg. Lower your shields and power down your weapons. Your biological and technological distinctiveness will be added to our own. Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated."

JFM : I think it would be more urgent to design a brain chip for actors, musicians and MSM journalists given how poorly their natural, carbon-based brains work.

Just don't hurt Charlize - no scars. She's a lefty, but a gorgeous lefty...

GU5775 : The boomers or X'ers will probably be the last generation to die without widespread significant electronic enhancement.

Yes but is there any practical use for a chip duplicating an appendix for Boomer me, or a chip duplicating a gall-bladder for my Gen-X wife?
(Since we lack those items....)

Posted by BigEd 2005-10-26 15:24|| 2005-10-26 15:24|| Front Page Top

#26 I for one welcome our new enhanced rat overlords.

Posted by DMFD 2005-10-26 22:53|| 2005-10-26 22:53|| Front Page Top

#27 Great. Expect a flood of late night commercials for electronic male enhancement.

Posted by ed 2005-10-26 22:58|| 2005-10-26 22:58|| Front Page Top

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