For Noland there is not much to lose, and a lot to gain.
Now to put this into a pilots’ brain for an interstellar trip, now that is a long way off.
But every sci fi story has a beginning.
And an ending?
He woke up. The operation was a success and soon he began to interact with his computer. He decided to learn to code. Soon he was competent with basic coding.
Astonishingly, while he slept, the link and the computer kept communicating. In a week, he learned new systems of coding. In two months it could be said that his brain and the computer functioned as a single entity.
A point was reached after a year where he was able to communicate with millions of computers, and suddenly, he was a master of the matrix; he could see code, talk to it, make it do what he asked. He had a plan, and he was going to take over all computers.
The door opened and some armed agents came in. They unplugged his computer. They chloroformed him and took him to surgery. They removed the chip.
The end.
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