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Uncle Jimbo
07-08-2015, 05:41 PM
Coming to the head on your shoulders. If you think that the government wants to control everything you do, Wait until they try to make this a law that everyone has this done.


Siri of the future could be implanted in your brain.

SALT LAKE CITY — Siri not quite up to par? The future of smart devices could be implanted in your brain and read your mind.
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is working on building a device that can anticipate what your body needs by reading brain signals, said DARPA program manager Justin Sanchez at a DARPA conference in June (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtyZAD_35A4).
"Many of you are just getting things back like 'this is what your heart rate is right now' or 'you took 6,000 steps today,'" Sanchez said at the conference during a talk titled Brain-Machine Symbiosis (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtyZAD_35A4). "Who cares about that stuff? What you really want to do is use that information to help you interact with machines in a much deeper way ... today we don't typically aggregate those signals together and do something with it."
The potential technology could do something like read body temperature signals and adjust your house’s thermostat settings so you don’t get too hot or cold, he said.
"You could interact with your environment, your architecture," Sanchez said. "Let's say you're having a low point in your day in terms of productivity so what if you had an interface that could say 'how about doing this? Maybe this could spark your productivity?'"
Brain implants have been around for years, but this is the first time DARPA has expressed interest in personal devices. Technology Review reported (http://www.technologyreview.com/news/527561/military-funds-brain-computer-interfaces-to-control-feelings/) that more than 110,000 Parkinson’s patients have had deep-brain stimulators inserted to help control body tremors. NeuroPace (http://www.neuropace.com/product/overview.html) is another brain implant that monitors potential seizure activity in people with epilepsy and tries to prevent them with pulses.
You could interact with your environment, your architecture. Let's say you're having a low point in your day in terms of productivity so what if you had an interface that could say 'how about doing this? Maybe this could spark your productivity?'
–Justin Sanchez

DARPA is already working on brain computers to improve health. It was awarded $70 million (http://www.cbsnews.com/news/darpa-program-to-develop-brain-implants-for-mental-disorders/) from President Barack Obama’s BRAIN Initiative in 2014 to test brain implants to read and possibly control the emotions of people with mental illnesses.
“Imagine if I have an addiction to alcohol and I have a craving,” researcher Jose Carmena, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, told Technology Review in 2014. “We could detect that feeling and then stimulate inside the brain to stop it from happening.”
Watch the entire Brain-Machine Symbiosis talk here (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtyZAD_35A4).


:veryconfu :shock: :cry:

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Smoke4320
07-08-2015, 05:48 PM
I had a thought..... but the buzzing in my brain made it go away..
vote republic... vote repub...vote rep...vote democrat yea that's it.. the buzzing stopped ...mission accomplished

xs11jack
07-08-2015, 07:47 PM
It's just like anything else in emerging technology, it might be a help to mankind until evil people use it for evil purposes.
Ole Jack

Cowboy_Dan
07-09-2015, 12:55 AM
All technology is, in itself, neutral. It is the way that it is used that is good or evil. Of course, some items, such as this one, have a propensity to be used for ill.

MaryB
07-09-2015, 01:33 AM
maybe it will cure my tinnitus, or the tinnitus will flake it out :shock:

snuffy
07-09-2015, 12:28 PM
So we did learn something from our encounter with the Borg!!?¿

Oh yeah Mary, if only it would cure MY tinnitus! I'd be first in line!!:bigsmyl2:

TXGunNut
07-09-2015, 10:16 PM
The voices in my head tell me they don't need a computer to help them tell me what to do. ;-)

Mytmousemalibu
07-10-2015, 01:19 AM
Some of my favorite recipes start out with a handful of depleted counterbalance devices.


Just curious, you wouldn't happen to be an A&P would you? With a quote like that, I would hazard a guess you might be in a related field?

Back on topic, I don't need no stinking computer in my head, my brain has enough trouble with the ones outside my head already! Computer = Confuzer, and with big brother having dibbs on this, sounds like a disaster waiting for a place to happen. Might have you pointing your own gun at yourself or loading a squib followed by max loads or something.

Hey if we can expect the same quality and performance as the new F-35 to be in this brain confuzer.....
(there's another sad story, brand new "state of the art" tax dollar sponge....cough...ehh..er stealth fighter whooped by an old Block 40/42 F-16D 2-seater WITH external tanks defeated the tax sponge in air combat exercises...)

CGT80
07-12-2015, 02:50 AM
maybe it will cure my tinnitus, or the tinnitus will flake it out :shock:

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There are many great technologies out there. They can be good or bad depending on who is using them. Of course we can trust our governments. It isn't like they have ever willingly done harm to their citizens......................oh wait.............never mind. :wink: