Researchers make your brain into a video game controller...(I'm serious!)

[TommyHolly]

Check this link out... http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/fun.games/06/15/video.mindgames.reut/index.html

This is really cool. I can't wait till this becomes a normal technology. I am hoping that someday we can eventually store information onto a "Hard-disk" in your brain and access it. This is one of the reasons I liked the idea behind Ghost in the Shell and Matrix so much. Imagine the possibilities.

[Tatuya]

If it becomes normal technology though, what will be the challenge in say an FPS if you can hit a target 33 out of 33 times. I see why you are excited (I am a bit as well) but how can you regulate something like that. Although, it would be awesome to be able to draw stuff with your mind into a mind controlled adobe photoshop.

[StreetPharmacy]

I can see it now

Your brain is not responding. Please wait for the program to shut down, or click End Now to close the program. Any unsaved data you have will be lost.

The system has suffered a critical error!

Click "Send Error Report" to tell Microsoft about this problem.


Hmm...

[termin@tor]

I can see it now

Your brain is not responding. Please wait for the program to shut down, or click End Now to close the program. Any unsaved data you have will be lost.

The system has suffered a critical error!

Click "Send Error Report" to tell Microsoft about this problem.


Hmm...

roflmao!

It sounds cool, but I don't know :-/

[Aslan]

I agree in that it sounds very interesting, and it would make things quite a bit easier with work-related tasks, but it definitely has the ability to make games less fun. It would scare the **** out of me to have a hard drive in my head with a Microsoft OS on it.

[Tatuya]

Especially with spyware and virii....

[TommyHolly]

I used to have this home computer called the "Apple II GS". It was the WORST computer that I have ever used. Anyway, when it crashed it would make this loud sound that would go "BONK" and then it froze up.

I can only imagine stuff like that happening in your head when they first get this technology going. Oh the horror of having to hear that excrutiatingly annoying sound again... :-/

[Robrules18]

hmm they already have technology in fighter planes where pilots just look at something anfd a missle locks on and fires at it, but it should be based on IQ, then ppl could be in games and be like i have DDR (Dual-Dimension-Remembering) 123 (IQ) and then the ppl who bought theirs from Dell would be like "Dude... *goes comatose*"

[tom10167]

Especially with spyware and virii....
Viruses. :)

This terrifies me, you realize that with something like a hard drive or electronic device in us we are ROBOTS?

God that is horrifying beyond belief. Possibilites? Goodbye free thought and hello machine.

www.geocities.com/tom10167/doom.html

My thoughts on this subject. If linking is not allowed in this case I'm sorry and will gladly edit it.

[ninthebin]

wouldnt that be cyborgs (which sounds cooler), robots would be if you were 100% machine based. I think one of the scariest prospects in robotics, if you take something like that honda robot, one day somebody is going to put a gun in its hand and write it a nice little how to aim and shoot program to go with it :)

[termin@tor]

Technology will destroy us some day... if we don't destroy ourselves first. But I don't want to go into details because political discussion is banned.

The things we own end up owning us. And I agree with that site tom posted.

Either technology is going to develop so much that it is going to become superior to us and destroy us.
Or it is going to develop so much that we wouldn't have to do anything and we will stop developping and the world will just end.

I hope that doesn't happen in my lifetime :eek:

Kind of makes you not want to overclock again, eh? :D

[Droban]

Sometimes I wish I could defrag my brain.

[cack01]

"These electrodes are placed on peoples' brains on a routine basis for seizure localization," Leuthardt said in a telephone interview.

The patients have their skulls opened and the electrodes placed on the surface of the brain to find out where their seizures are originating, so the connections in that area can be cut in the hope of a cure.


Where do I sign? :-/

This reminds me of "Johnny Mnemonic". In ten years we will be like Keanu Reeves. Using a stacker program to compress our brain data then go to work and take orders from a Dolphin.

[El-Scotto]

meh i dont believe that website, it just doesnt sound plausible, i mean i know it could come to that but highly doubt it.

[CandymanCan]

Can u imagine no more school YAAA!!, you can just download all the info to youre brain

[JoT]

Viruses. :)

This terrifies me, you realize that with something like a hard drive or electronic device in us we are ROBOTS?

God that is horrifying beyond belief. Possibilites? Goodbye free thought and hello machine.

www.geocities.com/tom10167/doom.html

My thoughts on this subject. If linking is not allowed in this case I'm sorry and will gladly edit it.


Nah, no one will kill you over that link, though you could have just posted the text :rolleyes:. Now to send my Honda robot to find Sarah Conner....

[termin@tor]

Can u imagine no more school YAAA!!, you can just download all the info to youre brain


That's a good point, lol :santa: :clap:

[Alice]

It would kinda suck to be able to download info onto your brain. Just think: No one could be special! "You know C++, huh? That's no big deal, I downloaded that last week!" And then there would be all of the electronic drugs! And sex! That would suck too. But it would make for some rather interesting practical jokes. It all looks good until you throw in all of the stupid people and the giant corporations. The corporations can be regulated, but for some reason, it's somehow "wrong" to discriminate against the stupid. I think it would be really awesome, but the bad kinda outweighs the good.

[LiGhTBoY]

www.geocities.com/tom10167/doom.html



That pretty much sums my thoughts up. I just don't feel comfortable with the idea that "they" can connect wires and stuff inside my head and mess with it. Call me old-timer but that's MO.


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[JoT]

You guys are thinking far too much into this; there hasn't been anything such as a full-blown computer in your brain even mentioned, just a few rudimentary tasks. Now quit with the doomsday predictions :rolleyes:

[LiGhTBoY]

It all starts with small steps, which become bigger and bigger ;)

[Ergnas]

Seriously though...it all starts by saying this could help paralyzed people, but then bad people take control and use it for their gain and to blow stuff up...like those bionic body enhancer things that you see in Popular Science and stuff....they increase your strength and they say it will help paralyzed people, which is probably true, but someone will use it for bad...

[N1vek215]

O you people. This discussion reminds me of 1999 with all the Y2K hype. OH NO THE WORLD IS COMING TO AND END!! WE'VE DEPENDED ON TECHNOLOGY SO MUCH, NOW IT CAN'T SOUNT TO 2000! WE'RE DOOMED!! <<<And nothing happened

Calm down peeps. The orignal topic of this was using your brain as a controller. *good-bye and good ridance to mouse and keyboard* A good idea, but therewouldn't be any problems with gameplay and future games if you think about it. Games would be faster and much mroe reflex heavy and much more immersive.

And going to the whole downloading info to your brain is cool but damn scary if you think about it. I actually wrote a report on this :-D Chances are with so many big corporations and how they want to control everything, I bet information WILL cost money, so if you want to learn , let's say an entire college course you would have to pay like $3000 and it's downloaded to your brain, and you would receive some sort of certificate, saying you rightfully bought your education, so then (pirates) wouldn't download illegal uhm, information and get away with it.

Also another thing is that let's say information will be free or "open source", what would happen if we tried to download all the world's information into our heads? Will we reach a limit and have our brains explode or will be just keep piling on information for eternity or will everyone reach an absolute limit on everything and then just sit and stare at a wall forever because, there's nothing else to refresh your mind?

Now me, myself am a fan of being able to be jacked-up into some digital world a la Matrix. It would be freedom and be able to let people have different experiences and would be an excellent way to detain people who are incarcerated or for alternate life style or just for gaming (Imagine a game of Unreal Tourney with you being actually in it, and being able to be blown up and then spawn back)

But you know, I'm goign to stop typing, and I jsut might write a book on all these theories. Thank you all

[Pake]

Stupid song in my head....

/delete

Sweet Jeebus, it's gone!

[unreal]

hehe talk about, no more hey i ment to do this but didnt hit the button fast enough lol, interesting article