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Sony Invention Beams Sights, Sounds Into Brain
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| 5/6/05
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Posted on 04/06/2005 2:47:51 PM PDT by Callahan
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To: Right Wing Assault
They can patent a device they have never even tried out? Beat me to it. This is absolutely ridiculous and a perfect example of how a bad patent system stifles innovation rather than encouraging it. There are dozens of examples of "prior art" for this sort of thing in science fiction; sure, the authors never actually created the technology, but neither did Sony.
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posted on
04/06/2005 3:30:04 PM PDT
by
ThinkDifferent
(These pretzels are making me thirsty)
To: orionblamblam
I'm more than what i was...
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posted on
04/06/2005 3:31:46 PM PDT
by
Chode
(American Hedonist ©®)
To: ThinkDifferent
Prior Art Zowie.. Arthur C. Clark just called..
He needs a lawyer to sue all those communications satellite manufacturers..
Mmmmmmm. Big money.. Lotsa litigation..
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posted on
04/06/2005 3:32:12 PM PDT
by
Drammach
(Freedom; not just a job, it's an adventure..)
To: scab4faa
One word... PORN!
Yep! The first person who can take this technology and create the "sensory experience" of actually having sex will become a billionaire.
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posted on
04/06/2005 3:33:34 PM PDT
by
Drew68
To: Callahan
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posted on
04/06/2005 3:34:21 PM PDT
by
scab4faa
(http://www.compfused.com/directlink/703/)
To: Centurion2000
I predict that when the tech becomes available there will be so many spinoffs it's not even funny. Think criminal misuse and making people see and hear what you want. And of course the Chinese will pioneer the tech to brainwash people.If you can alter brain function, you can shut it down.
This is a killing weapon.
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posted on
04/06/2005 3:34:40 PM PDT
by
Lazamataz
(Cleverly Arranging 1's And 0's Since 11110111011...)
To: Callahan
sounds like the "orgasamatron" from that Woody Allen movie!
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posted on
04/06/2005 3:36:51 PM PDT
by
tiredoflaundry
(My quaker parrot can talk, can Your honor student fly?)
To: scab4faa
You beat me to it. Great movie.
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posted on
04/06/2005 3:36:53 PM PDT
by
raybbr
To: scab4faa
Grow up kid, this isn't for children who don't have control over their horomones. Find some other forum to post that. No one wants to hear what you do in your free time.
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posted on
04/06/2005 3:37:18 PM PDT
by
Right Wing It
(www.conservativetruths.blogspot.com)
To: Drew68
I bet there's some guy running to the nearest patent attorney right now. Uh, see you folks later! Gotta go!
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posted on
04/06/2005 3:37:21 PM PDT
by
Right Wing Assault
("..this administration is planning a 'Right Wing Assault' on values and ideals.." - John Kerry)
To: Lazamataz
Killing weapon.. Or mind control device..
If you can affect/control the cerebellum you can affect/control the cortex..
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posted on
04/06/2005 3:40:08 PM PDT
by
Drammach
(Freedom; not just a job, it's an adventure..)
To: Callahan
If we could every liberal to hook up into a video game that had them being mugged in a bad neighborhood that would be the end of liberalism! :-)
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posted on
04/06/2005 3:41:26 PM PDT
by
cgbg
(Fire the Trustees of the Social Security Trust Fund with no money in it!)
To: Right Wing It
Oh ok newbie I'll listen to you..
What does the word porn, upset you?
Poor thing.
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posted on
04/06/2005 3:41:39 PM PDT
by
scab4faa
(http://www.compfused.com/directlink/703/)
To: Callahan
Thus begins the symbiotic age, which was preceeded by the Information Age, which will be followed by the Autonomous Age (computers exceeding human capabilities), leading to the Technological Sincularity, beyond which it will be impossible to predict anything because super-human computers will be running things, probably without human control or oversight.
Vernor Vinge on the Singularity
To: Centurion2000
I predict that when the tech becomes available there will be so many spinoffs it's not even funny. "Brainster" ... Download Video & Music directly to the brain..
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posted on
04/06/2005 3:46:11 PM PDT
by
Drammach
(Freedom; not just a job, it's an adventure..)
To: Callahan
I predict that when this technology becomes widely available whole swaths of the population will permanently check out of reality. My wife says I'm half way there with my Xbox.The first commercially successful application will be pornography.
To: Fitzcarraldo
There are many great sf books on the singularity concept.
I am currently reading and really enjoying Karl Schroeder's "Ventus" about a planet controlled by nanotechnology. If you click on my name I have brief comments on many sf books.
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posted on
04/06/2005 3:47:52 PM PDT
by
cgbg
(Fire the Trustees of the Social Security Trust Fund with no money in it!)
To: cgbg
Thanks for your list - right now I'm reading "Blood Music" by Greg Bear.
To: Callahan
Can't count how many Sci fi - cyber punk novels I've read where this very thing happens.. people become addicted to it. What if they could directly manipulate the pleasure centers of the brain.. talk about porn...
One book I read called them button-heads and they would hook up and forget to eat or bathe and would wither. What the hell was the title of that book...
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posted on
04/06/2005 3:55:20 PM PDT
by
Trampled by Lambs
(This Tagline is on hiatus as I think of a new one.)
To: Fitzcarraldo
because super-human computers will be running things, probably without human control or oversight. Vinge's 2nd concept, IA ( Intelligence Amplification ) seems to agree with this article's scenario...
While AI has been stalled out and may be a dead end for decades to come, IA may have a future..
With IA, the human provide the "intelligence", or the conscious, creative mind that controls and directs..
Technology "simply" enhances the abilities and powers of the controlling intellect..
The scary thing there is, the outcome of such advancement depends entirely on human morality, and adherence to concepts of right and wrong..
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posted on
04/06/2005 3:59:21 PM PDT
by
Drammach
(Freedom; not just a job, it's an adventure..)
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