[Carlhole]

IEET

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'A') contact lens that harvests radio waves to power an LED is paving the way for a new kind of display. The lens is a prototype of a device that could display information beamed from a mobile device. Realising that display size is increasingly a constraint in mobile devices, Babak Parviz at the University of Washington, in Seattle, hit on the idea of projecting images into the eye from a contact lens. One of the limitations of current head-up displays is their limited field of view. A contact lens display can have a much wider field of view. “Our hope is to create images that effectively float in front of the user perhaps 50 cm to 1 m away,” says Parviz.

[Carlhole]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('GASMON', 'J')ust what we need !!

The advancement of technology - A couple of years ago I thought we would all have an RS232 port up our arse !!!

Gasmon

[2cher]

I am not letting intel near my brain!!!!

[Carlhole]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('2cher', 'I') am not letting intel near my brain!!!!

[lowem]

Now that would be a pretty expensive contact lens to lose, wouldn't it?

[Dreamtwister]

As always when it comes to these technological developments, my first thought is "COOL!".

Then I spend the next 4 hours imagining all of the ways it could be exploited by someone with malicious intent.

[Maddog78]

That would be sweet for the first few days until this showed up.

[evilgenius]

Who says that by the time a brain chip is developed it would have to be implanted?

[flapjax]

The ultimate cheat sheet; too cool for school when you have the interwebs beemed directly to your eyes and you can navigate your personal gui with just a thought. I'm in! Sign me up for Millionare when it's over.

[Carlhole]

Oh, you guys aren't near imaginative enough.

The brain forms distinct patterns for various thoughts. If I'm not mistaken, a researcher recently discovered that brainwave patterns are identifiable from person to person.

This naturally leads to the idea of using mental symbols to identify certain functions on a brain-resident computer. There could be thousands of such functions. A mathematician could just think of a certain algorithm routine to invoke it. He could mentally plug-in values and arrive at an answer without all that calculator/keypad nonsense.

Later, as direct brain interfaces are explored/developed, a symbiosis between natural and AI intelligence will be actively sought. This isn't just a pretty sci-fi story any more. It's no longer even incipient. It's a science/technology growth area that exists now.

[flapjax]

Found this on CNN today
http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2009/sma ... smb/4.html


$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')he $299 Epoc headset launches in early 2010, along with the Windows software that calibrates it. Emotiv's four scientist-founders hope to make it the basis of a whole new system of computer game playing: "Pressing a button to cast a magic spell doesn't give you a fulfilling experience," Lee explains. "But thinking that spell does."

[Dreamtwister]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Carlhole', 'O')h, you guys aren't near imaginative enough. The brain forms distinct patterns for various thoughts. If I'm not mistaken, a researcher recently discovered that brainwave patterns are identifiable from person to person.

[Carlhole]

The rapid science/technology growth that has accompanied the Industrial Revolution has more or less got a life of its own now. There is nothing that will stop scientific exploration now. I rather regard it as an emergent evolutionary process that is nearly impossible to derail.

At the same time, the human population of the world is altogether non-sustainable and quite unhealthy. What does Gaia have in mind? Why did she create apes? So they would do their thing, no doubt, and create the next dramatic evolutionary possibility.

I'm pretty much in line with Singularity thinking along these lines - once thinking machines are building/designing the next generation of thinking machines - this introduces a whole new line of evolution. Since biology offers lots of advantages over non-living components, there will be a morphing of the biological with the artificial. This seems to be an unstoppable human goal. People as we know them today, might soon become like H. Erectus.

The important question may not be: "Will there be a die-off?"; it might instead be, "Will it matter?".

Back just a couple of years ago, if you opened your mouth about the Singularity, you were jeered as a rapturing geek. But it's possible, now, to point to all kinds of successful, intensive R&D along many separate lines that will eventually result in machines approaching the human and the human approaching machines.

Anybody who contemplates the future based on current, cutting-edge trends, can never be accurate. But it's reasonable to recognize that people will never quit working on this stuff. There is no reason to suspect that scientists in this area are up against some kind of intellectual brickwall, too complex for anyone to understand and use.

[Carlhole]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Dreamtwister', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Carlhole', 'O')h, you guys aren't near imaginative enough. The brain forms distinct patterns for various thoughts. If I'm not mistaken, a researcher recently discovered that brainwave patterns are identifiable from person to person.

[Arthur75]

Again with the new "singularity is coming" religion ...
(previous ones, religions that is, had the great merit of creating art, this one just creates boring technical promises PR statements, slogans, and buzz words, a bit sad .. )

[Carlhole]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Arthur75', 'A')gain with the new "singularity is coming" religion ...
(previous ones, religions that is, had the great merit of creating art, this one just creates boring technical promises PR statements, slogans, and buzz words, a bit sad .. )

[mos6507]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Carlhole', '
')To be a doomer, you have to believe that this basic human drive will somehow stop working in the service of invention, adaptation, new insight, etc.

[Arthur75]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Carlhole', '
')
It's not a religion. It's just noticing certain strong directions in science that are valuable and possible. Then making a good guess about the future.

[Carlhole]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mos6507', 'B')ut this has happened before, with the decline of past civilizations there is usually a loss of accumulated knowledge. So it's not like we're just making this up.