Brain Chips...

[.matthew.]

 

[Ori Vandewalle]

Anybody watch the demo? It's pretty neat. They've made a small, unobtrusive implant (that's the main innovation) that can send/receive brain signals via bluetooth. They showed a pig on a treadmill where, in real time, they decode the pig's neuron firings to predict where it's going to move its limbs and then compare that to the actual limb movements.

 

[-K2-]

Anybody watch the demo? It's pretty neat. They've made a small, unobtrusive implant (that's the main innovation) that can send/receive brain signals via bluetooth. They showed a pig on a treadmill where, in real time, they decode the pig's neuron firings to predict where it's going to move its limbs and then compare that to the actual limb movements.

No thanks...the last time I had my brainwaves checked, they claimed I drank too much alcohol...

K2

 

[TheEndIsNigh]

It wouldn't start with mass chipping, but instead with the innocuous stuff like helping the disabled. Then maybe on to monitoring criminals (who in many places already lose the right to vote). Then once they've figured out how to influence brain chemistry through implants (either electrically or with a chemical delivery system), who could complain if these criminals were made incapable of committing violent acts at all?

The Covid vacine brain control conspiracy was started on the SFFChronicles** site in 2020.

Someone innocently suggested the demand for it would be so great that including the newly developed brain control chips into the anti-viral mix would be a shoe in for population control. The idea was taken up by most countries.

It has become known as the ALWAYS system because the person making the suggestion joked about it.

Since the year 2021 there have been no incidents of revolt or riot recorded against any govenrment anywhere in the the world.

There can be no doubt that its wide introduction, helped save the planet from global warming. The desire for a better life was quashed and poplation growth ended immediately due to the brutal suppresion of sex drive amongst the masses.

Film/novel pitch copyright Sam Tein 2020

I know someone with an RFID chip in their hand and and RFID enable front door lock. They have limited dexterity and movement so a traditional key based lock is out of the question. That's about as far as I want to go for my body-machine integration...

Cat flaps for people. The problem will be that murder will increase as a pre-curser to robbery. Detach the head of your victim and go rob his house.

I wonder how many years until people get mobile phones grafted into their palms. Just think, those flexible screens they’ve been developing would be great for the job. No chance of losing a phone after that (unless you work in somewhere like a lumber mill with a big, nasty saw).

Which reminds me of a funny story...at my old place of work, security had a ’hidden’ camera in a duct and we used to put our hands up and wave at it as we walked by. They couldn’t tell who’s hand it was until one day, a security guard gave my colleague a talking to. When my workmate asked how he knew he was the culprit, the guard pointed to his hand. My colleague used to work in a sawmill and lost half a finger in an accident. It kind of stuck out like a sore thumb (if you’ll pardon the phrase).

Here the problem is by the time G10 comes along you'll be the equivalent of the Tattoo'ed Man with a mobile phone up your ...


** Now banned due to it having too many free thinking contributors making suggestions like the one herein.

 

[Cydramech]

I, for one, welcome becoming an (eternal) AI warlord.

 

[Starbeast]

Check out The Happiness Cage a.k.a. The Mind Snatchers (movie based on a play) with Christopher Walken. Disturbing...

Anywho, with that said...there are some possible benefits like bypassing a severed spine, epilepsy (if I recall correctly...hard drive corruption, sorry), and a whole host of other maladies which could be overcome...But, in my opinion, there is too much possibility for abuse. Not that anyone would ever do that

I'm with you on this. I always think of that movie when I hear people talk about putting implants in the brain.

I've read stories and seen movies about "tinkering with the human mind". But The Mind Snatchers (1972), does a great job of not sugar-coating the reality (or possibility) of Mind Controlling people. I've seen the movie a few times. and it's still a very creepy movie.

 

[-K2-]

Well the funny thing is @Starbeast ; whether it's electronic stimulus--pleasure/pain--or very subtle manipulations, control by individuals up to governments has evolved to a point that we are given options and make the intended choices, ultimately brainwashing ourselves.

On the whole, people are social creatures. So, justifiably take away certain social outlets (say drinking at bars and then driving which we all agree is bad), then offer a monitor-able alternative (the internet which evolved to BBs, chat, forums, and social networking), and the people will CHOOSE to adopt the option offered, never considering what they might be giving up.

If you force controls on them--like 1984--there is always the underlying urge to rebel. If you MAKE it so they choose those controls, they'll accept it wholeheartedly.

Your PC, tablet, cell-phone, smart-watch, WiFi camera, vehicles, chipped credit cards, etc. are your current 'brain chips' as far as tracking/monitoring is concerned. By eliminating pay-phones/mobile phones (different system), and making having cash more difficult, folks have been pressured to accept the digital age or be excluded from society (say your car breaks down, going back to a time before phones). All the neat apps and the internet convince folks to 'choose it.'

Past the method changing, nothing else has. Those who seek control will abuse it.

K2

 

[.matthew.]

@-K2- Disturbing how deep these things go (link to an article full of ways they operate).

And that image is literally the basic method.

 

[BigBadBob141]

Would it be possible to repair brain damage using this tech?

 

[Robert Zwilling]

Its always great science until it gets misapplied which can then be as bad as no science at all.

 

[CupofJoe]

Would it be possible to repair brain damage using this tech?

I'm guessing not repair, but maybe bypass... I think they are already using mechanical/electronic bypasses for some with spinal damage. If it gives them enough movement to use a mouse or flick a switch, it could radically change a life...

 

[-K2-]

Would it be possible to repair brain damage using this tech?

I'm not taking the chance (though lord knows I need it). Whether it might help or not, I've decided to cancel my colonoscopy.

No one's gonna' chip my brain

K2

 

[.matthew.]

I've decided to cancel my colonoscopy.

No one's gonna' chip my brain

How far up do you imagine they'd be going?

 

[-K2-]

How far up do you imagine they'd be going?

In my case--to get to the brain--not far.

(or is 'their brain is in their rump, dumb/smart-azz,' not a thing where you are?)

K2

 

[TheEndIsNigh]

In my case--to get to the brain--not far.

(or is 'their brain is in their rump, dumb/smart-azz,' not a thing where you are?)

K2

Ahhhh....

I see where the confusion could arise. Another "colonial" misunderstanding.

Maybe it's because we have had more time, being a more established, more sophisticated community.

You see, over here most of are talking out of our arse so the phrase

"Dumb arse" just gives us Spock like puzzled raised eyebrows.

 

[Wayne Mack]

a sewing-machine-like device that implants these electrodes into the brain's cortex."

A sewing machine? Why do I keep picturing a large room of women and children in rags doing brain surgery for gruel?

 

[afton]

I'm wondering if device like this in the future would be useful in helping us to knock down our to-read list ;-)