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Posted on 11/10/2017 10:57:09 AM PST by Red Badger
SUPER HUMANS could exist in just 15 years thanks to a computer chip inserted into the brain to unlock the mankind’s full potential.
People will be able to buy new memories and delete unwanted ones in the near future as experts believe they are close to biohacking the body’s most powerful tool, according to a leading technology entrepreneur.
Speaking at Lisbon’s Web Summit, Bryan Johnson, the founder of Kernel – a start-up researching the possibilities of microchips being inserted on the brain – says unlocking the true potential of the mind is the “single greatest thing” humanity can achieve.
Kernel’s first step is to design chips that can help fight disease, but then it hopes to evolve the brain to offer superhuman abilities.
The firm’s website reads: “To further explore our own human boundaries, a wave of new technologies needs to emerge that can access, read, and write from the most powerful tool we have — the human brain.
“At Kernel, our primary aim is to develop technologies to understand and treat neurological diseases in new and exciting ways.
“We will then interpret the brain’s complex workings in order to create applications towards cognitive enhancement.”
Mr Johnson told the audience at Web Summit: “I would expect in around 15-20 years we will have a sufficiently robust set of tools for the brain that we could pose any question we wanted.
“For example, could I have a perfect memory? Could I delete my memories? Could I increase my rate of learning, could I have brain to brain communication?
“Imagine a scenario where I say ‘I want to know what it’s like to be a cowboy in the American west in the 1800s?’ and someone creates that experience mentally.
“I’m able to take that and purchase that from that person and experience that.”
When Mr Johnson was questioned on whether such technology could cause further divisions in society between those that do have a neural implant and those that do not, the founder of Braintree, which was sold to eBay for $800 million in 2013, said that he believes such technology will become “democratised, like smartphones”.
He said: “The bigger question on this is: ‘Is working on this a luxury or a necessity?’
“I don’t understand what we are so scared of losing?
“I don’t know why it would not be the singular focus of the human race because everything we do stems from our brain.”
Nope. Not enough space in those unnaturally thick skulls.
Zackly.
Not with the tech planted inside your cranium and a battery that never runs out because it’s fed by your own body electrochemistry.
Is there a percentage bigger than 100?
Gives whole new meaning to that Blue Screen of Death thingy.
Form and function...
Computers & Brains...
Both process data...
Both can process information and get a result...
The difference is our brains (except liberals) have trillions more capacity and ability to do things a computer will never do...
Love, hate, greed, emotion etc...
We will never build a brain even remotely close to that lump of gray matter on top of our necks...
That won’t stop them from trying..................
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Memory resides in the mind, not the brain.
There is a difference.
Great - until the recipient starts shooting up the local mall aiming for Ike Clanton. :)
I have no doubt that 100 or even 50 years from now, technology will be focusing on the human brain and its capabilities with direct connection to computers and electronic devices.......
Forbidden Planet, with Robbie the Robot! Sure. 1956? The humans linked their minds together, went to sleep and their hidden resentments came to the front. They all killed each other. No one woke up. They all killed each other “in their sleep.”
The Krell forgot one thing, the monsters form the ID
Yeah right....I’m still waiting for the flying cars I was promised in so many issues of Popular Mechanics et al.
Guy pays for memory deletion. Then they delete the memory of him making thr payment and charge him again til his account is empty...then delete that he ever went to that clinic....when you get memory deleted, go with a buddy.
Wirehead—a technological enabling of a possible selection process, which ultimately weeds out those with low self-control from the gene pool.
Testing of rats with brain electrode implants, provided early evidence for development of an extreme addiction, to the exclusion of normal survival behaviors.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirehead_(science_fiction)
There is more processing power in a smartphone now, than to be found in all but the most extreme gaming PC’s.
The applied art of macrame, of copper wires threaded through arrays of ferrite beads. Never hands-on on any commercial equipment with Core in actual use—had adopted DRAM by that time. Here is a memorable space application for a potential radiation environment.
https://www.theverge.com/2012/4/26/2976471/nasa-core-rope-memory-apollo-guidance-computer
Did you mean there is more processing power in a smartphone now then found in all of but the most extreme gaming PCs of yesteryear?
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