Comments on: Intel: Chips in brains will control computers by 2020

By: Daniel

Daniel — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 16:42:51 +0000

But if it were outthinking us, then we wouldn’t know it, would we?

By: phillip j hubbell

phillip j hubbell — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 02:27:08 +0000

I have never been concerned with the diabolical nature of government…the main danger from government is that it will get so big that it might fall over on us and crush us…but it won’t outthink us.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 15:52:52 +0000

What I don’t get is, what if grim duty leads me to open documents and do work-related research on the Web, but my actual impulse is to gamble and view pr0n? (Which it isn’t — listen, between disciplined work and fervent prayer, I scarcely have time to volunteer at the shelter and mow the lawns of my elderly neighbors, let alone view Hot Asian Women Stripping And Toying.)

With these ghoulish mind-reading implants, could I be sitting at my desk, chafing against a PowerPoint upon which I “must” work, and have NSFW material pop up against my executive will, but very much in keeping with my basest volition (again, in the hypothetical case that I had the kinds of depraved urges others apparently have and for which I reserve my deepest stores of contempt)?

P.S. to P-Hub,

If the research area is brain control, I think you can rely on the government to gallop boldly down the path of innovation.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:32:12 +0000

Intel will not exist in 2020.

By: phillip j hubbell

phillip j hubbell — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 19:50:29 +0000

It will start in the medical field. A wireless multiplexing set of controllers to bypass nerve damage or perhaps even spinal cord damage makes sense to me…of course that may all change when the government takes over healthcare and innovation stands still.

By: MG

MG — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 01:02:52 +0000

Thanks for reminding me I haven’t watched Dr. Who in a while.