By anonymous
Thirty years ago is hardly even imaginable. We have made advances beyond anyone’s imagination. Computers have transformed the world, from computers filling a room to a wireless phone today. It is difficult for us today to believe the engineers would work at something so ridiculously slow. These computers have become an integral part of the world, advancing civilization to limits we have only begun to see.
To this day, an engineer only makes a small step to get to the cutting edge. Once again, these advances were unimaginable 30 years ago today. In fact, to graduate with a master’s or doctorate from most universities, the engineer is required to do something never done before, a breakthrough. It is that easy and we continue to expand at an ever increasing and accelerating rate – into realms even the engineers working on them do not understand. Yes, the engineers and scientists still deserve our respect, while easy to get there, it takes a dedicated mind to go where no man has gone.
What if? And that is the next question, “What if”. Suppose someone came to a stumbling block creating a question whose answer is unknown, an answer most likely yes. This is what we find with the mind, the mind has ability beyond anything anyone has ever understood. Put as simply as possible, NPComplete is or is not equal to PComplete. Does the mind have the ability to handle exponentially difficult questions in a polynomial amount of time? Using the game of chess as an example, the answer appears to be yes. Man can defeat a super computer which plays a chess game to the end on every single piece – in what appears to be a polynomial amount of time. Well, while interesting, this is not really useful in this article. Other than to say, man has gone way beyond this answer – should the answer be yes, the world will change overnight beyond anyones imagination because a great number of people have already assumed the answer to be yes.
So, science has in fact gone far beyond what man is capable of accomplishing today. It is the act of saying, “If this is true, then this would be possible.” And yes, it is all worked out mathematically; ready and willing should a breakthrough be made. It is the nature of the game – a goal is in place to get from here to there, how do we make it happen?
The question I ask is where does it end? Human creativity and ingenuity, where does it end? The answer I believe, unfortunately, is without limits. It is like someone saying if this causes damage, someone will figure out how to fix it. And that is the nature of the beast, my friends. If the marketing geniuses out there have any say about it; their product will do the greatest amount of damage for the smallest amount of good. They have the faith in humanity required to take that extra step.
Let’s talk about embedded microchips. This is an example of insanity at its finest. Suppose the goal is to get these chips into humans. Spyware at its finest, yikes! What advancement is enough to make the average human say, “I want that!” Well, we are almost there, make no mistake about it. Initially, laughable, we don’t have to stand in lines any longer to buy products – everything would be automatically tracked and you would be charged automatically for the goods you wanted to take. Not enough?
Your doors could unlock automatically, you could log into your computer with a touch on the keyboard, your medical records would be attached to the chip helping prevent medical mistakes, your kids could not be kidnapped, you would not lose your pets… not good enough? You are not paying attention! None of the offerings are useful in any way. Nothing offered saves the consumer any peace of mind. End of story.
OK, we must get beyond security. We must get beyond any possible relief of anxiety from looking for keys or standing in lines. These are not important from my point of view and with any luck, you will find them just as unimportant after reading this article. Sorry for being long winded to get to this point.
Recently, I had a friend in school whose undergraduate project was using the chip to determine its surrounding temperature. What would that information be used for? Well, according to him, they did not finish the project; but being an undergraduate project, it makes me wonder if it had not already been done. I am only just getting started.
Today, so many people are taking anti-depressants that the chemicals from this drug are now detectable within the water supplies of large cities. This water supply is recycled which is an absolutely excellent idea … suppose I find it unfortunate that such a large number of people find it necessary and/or useful to take anti-depressants. Moving on.
Common knowledge. What makes someone intelligent? A question asked of a friend during his final questioning prior to his being awarded a PhD in Civil Engineering, no less. Civil Engineers deal with people and I suppose the question leads to respecting others. What makes someone intelligent? The answer he gave was the ability to debate. A physicist would not be intelligent in farming, the farmer would be intelligent and the physicist would be ignorant. Most like the situation could easily be reversed. My goal is purely to make you intelligent on … the many advances being made on interfacing a computer chip with the human body. It is my wish to get beyond the who-ha in an effort to show research currently being done and the advances being made to interface a microchip with the human body. Please continue reading. Please continue reading.
So to begin, it is important to assure the reader interfacing the brain is more than possible. At http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/11/02/brain.dish/ 'Brain' in a dish flies flight simulator. It is a brain being used as a computer? Or is it a brain being trained to fly a simulator? These are two completely different scenarios, let me assure you. In this case, the engineer is attempting to understand how to create artificial intelligence – probably going the wrong way about it; but you never know. He has breached the cutting edge.decribed through CNN as “could enhance medical understanding of neural disorders such as epilepsy.” You got to be kidding me.
All right then, we have input. A flight simulator. Potentially output, if it is actually flying the simulator as reported. However, output is confirmed just 5 months later. Another article describes how the brain tells the microchip to perform an action which is described here:
click here Implanting Hope. Says “For the first time, a paralyzed patient has operated a prosthetic arm with just his mind” This is output folks, the ability for a brain to interface a computer. In the prior article, the scientists had a computer teach a brain. In this article, the brain teaches a computer.
Continuing on, technology races forward. Steps are made here and steps are made there, the excitement grows. And one year later, an announcement is made – another giant leap on interfacing a computer with the human brain. Yep, success, they have achieved the goal. Please note: There are several links at the end of the article you may be interested in as well.
click here>Brain Cells Fused with Computer Chip
Health SciTech
27 March 2006
Well, that is just short of incredible. You read the article and it is quite possible the reader will think the researchers opened up someone’s brain, stuck a microchip in there, then used a special protein found in the brain to glue neurons one by one, 16,000 of them, to a microchip just 1 millimeter square in size (the approximate size of a grain of rice). This of course did not happen. The ramifications are completely insane to consider – the brain grew into the chip. That is right, folks – think this one through, there is no other logical answer to the question!
A beautiful working scenario actually. When a nerve is cut, it can repair itself by growing toward an electrical signal. And yes, advancements are being made here also. Here is an article from Harvard University which describes the growth of nerves outside the body confirming the fact that electrical charges enhance nerve growth.
click here>Researchers Grow Replacement Nerves
What we have here is something very powerful. It is shown to have abilities that can be used for good rather than evil. Moving on – what would be the next great feat to exploring the microchip interface with the brain? Think folks, we have input and output – what we need is storage. Storage is the key from this point on. Can the body be used as a storage device?
As far as I know, currently we have only come up with a plan for a wearable storage device, where the data is communicated through touch of one human being to another such as shaking hands. By touching someone on the shoulder, you could transfer images from a digital camera, etc.
http://www-rcf.usc.edu/~wdutton/comm533/PAN-SHEE.htm
The Personal Area Network (PAN)
Elizabeth Sheehan
WHAT IS PERSONAL AREA NETWORK (PAN)?
The ‘human body network,’ the ‘human modem,’ or as it is more commonly known, the Personal Area Network (PAN) is a network computer concept that uses the human body as a conductor for transmitting electronic data either to other human beings or to inanimate objects such as ATMs and cell phones.
Method of transmission is not the storage required. However, if you think for one second that people are not attempting to create storage in the human body, you are not thinking things through. This is old technology and I am surprised I can not find information required to show without a doubt the human can be used to store information. This is the final step!
OK, what is required of the future to make the current technology dangerous? We need lots of signal to make the nerve endings grow into the chips. We have pets that have used this technology as a test. No damage done. What we have never had is an environment where we have a continuous or close to continuous signal. We almost have that now, with wireless internet and wireless phones just about everywhere. Do these signals interface the RFID chip? Not sure if the do or not. Suppose you use your computer which interfaces the RFID chip, your car and home lock? Eventually, the lights to your house, how many objects does it take for your chip to become saturated with signal?
What we have here is not a pin in your knee or hip. This is a communication device. This communication device has the ability to interface with the human body, inadvertently. It is a potential side effect that could be abused. Are you willing to risk this side effect? This, my friends, is reality, it is not creating one from a vacuum – it is where technology is currently at. The technology exists and is being bragged about before your very eyes. It is simply connecting the dots. The next article we should consider will be mind control since we currently have detailed a controlled link to your brain…
