CALGARY (CP) — Researchers at the University of Calgary have found that nerve cells grown on a microchip can learn and memorize information which can be communicated to the brain. [ Check out the full story here ]
My take…
Crazy Canadians are developing ways to forget that they’re in the geographical equivalent of a loft apartment over a really great party.
Seriously though, the intended application of this technology is that they’re developing this stuff to interface with the brain in order to control artificial limbs. However, this article mentions that they also want this research to head toward developing “thinking computers”, such as those that rule the science fiction realms of Asimov, Kurzweil, The Matrix, and many others. I took a special topics course last summer about stuff like this; the negative ramifications of technology like this is NOT warm cozy stuff.
Discoveries like this are exciting, but great care needs to be taken with where this stuff goes, or else we’re all going to be The Borg someday. I will expound further on my feelings about this type of thing when I’m a little more coherent and I’ve had a chance to brush up on my Doomsday theories.
Totally unrelated, but I find stuff like stars getting ripped apart by black holes coooooool. I can’t believe I still have a girlfriend.
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