Memory implants and similar

[Tailz]

As long as it uses linux and not microsoft. Imagine getting BSoD on your memory
That aside its a cool idea, reminds me of the vatta war books where they had memory implants as well as skull phones.

[sjonit]

nice thread to comment on haha

[Warped]

I'm having a chip put in my head, made by some company called Skynet.

[The Continental]

Originally Posted by Taizéan

...that Chinese guy from one of those recent BBC science documentaries.

Ooft. That American guy that presents Visions of the Future will be ragin' someone's stealing his gimmick.

[I'm Your God Now]

Sure it's not just to keep track of you, making sure you stay at least 200m away from schools?

[Jaemi]

I would get one.

But I'm saving up to buy a unicorn.

[hammertime]

Originally Posted by Warped

I'm having a chip put in my head, made by some company called Skynet.

Will the humans try and shut you down for becoming too smart?

[LesMTS]

I'm putting a chip in my head made by some company called the Ian Lowe centre canteen at Ninewells Hospital.

[Ness]

Wasnt it Michio Kaku who said this? in his new book, i think he said it would be by 2020 and it wasnt for everybody but for medical breakthroughs inserting a chip into the hippocampus to people with damaged brains, i daresay it will be a reality commercially just a matter of time.

by 2050 we will all have Bio implants im sure, going by the rate of computer development.

Remember kids processing power doubles every 18 months and will do till 2040 apparently ( big Kaku thinks we will have quantum computers by then though)

so the futures gonna be dynamite when it comes to technological imrpovements to everyday life

[<goat>]

Has anyone explained what would happen if the chip implanted is faulty?
I don't want to prematurely ejaculate every time I think of 'potato' ¬_¬

[endless psych]

We have bio implants already...

The tech behind computers being integrated with the brain is in it's infancy. There are many hurdles to overcome ranging from rejection to actually getting the things to work. I'd suspect that it's more likely stem cell research will deliver a cure for altzheimers than computer implants.

Computer power may increase year on year in terms of speed but, pardon my potential ignorance, isn't that just tweaking an old concept and inproving it rather then coming up with something new?

[Ness]

processing power doubles every 18 months, so its not just about speed its about how many calculations a single processor can do in a mili second.

they reckon it will match a human brain by 2040, imagine a computer with the processing power of a brain - which uses 100% of that power all the time.

eventually we will get to a stage where computers will do the heavy breakthroughs in discoveries that we do at the moment - ie when they become smarter than us.


then again, if john connor isnt about we might all get done in offa them

[TSR]

Originally Posted by Ness

eventually we will get to a stage where computers will do the heavy breakthroughs in discoveries that we do at the moment - ie when they become smarter than us.

Just because a computer can/will do the same number of calculations as the human brain, doesn't mean it has that 'creative spark'. A human will still need to tell it what to compute

That's assuming AI hasn't advanced by then, of course

[Ness]

yea i was assuming that AI will have been sorted out then considering we have the beginning stages of AI done already man.

ya gotta keep in mind quantum computers aswell, they have sucessfully tested calculationg 3x5 on 7 atoms in got the answer right