Neural linkups to your brain will project Google’s images onto a screen in your brain. Fact or fiction?
Science fiction advocates tell us to expect Google search engine - brain implants sooner than most people realize. How so?
Here’s the skinny on benefits of your Google Brain implant: 
1. Forget any name in a conversation … and you’d be able to google it quickly … and accurately.
2. Read maps … keep up with sports scores … or follow news without ads while you work.
3. Access data banks to outsource your best insights and organize fast facts for use later.
4. Shop or sell through online search engines in your head … designed to show updates as they appear.
5. Download instant updates to computer programs … games … songs … movies … and technological services … as you desire them.
Some say implanted search engines will go no further than the brains of the scifi characters … they made them popular. Others say within the next decade … people will access information constantly through brain implants. What do you say?
As you said in a recent post, Dr. Weber, technology robs brainpower. I couldn't agree more.
Although I said in response to that post that we are not the Borg, I fear we will become the Borg. We won't simply have Google in our heads, we will have computers in our heads with the display output directly to the audio-visual centres of the brain. The worst part about it is that the operating system will probably be written by Microsoft. How scary is that? The "blue screen of death" might result in exactly that!
If people are addicted to technology and the Internet now, how much more so when they can see they output directly in their minds? I foresee some people losing touch completely with the real world. People will become their avatars.
Plato's allegory of the cave might have been far more prophetic than he intended.
Posted by: Declan Chellar | February 24, 2008 1:51 PM | Permalink to Comment