Sunday, September 14, 2008

Cyber kinetics

Cyber kinetics the art of using peoples brainwaves to control mechanics. The basis of this is to allow persons who have lost a limb to compensate by using a mechanical one. The easiest way to explain this is to take someone missing a hand and have it replaced with a mechanical one. This is then attached to a sophisticated computer system that attaches to the brain then using the brain impulses that would have once controlled the hand to do the same for the new mechanical one.


This is an awesome method of CMC, but instead of people conversing to one another through the system the system actually communicates with the machine. It’s quite impressive to think that we can use this to replace the human form. This science could potentially mean that one day everyone is plugged in, literally. We could be jacked into the car, computer, even work without having to ever leave our beds. Although at this point the science is very specific to individual systems who is to say we can not use the system to remotely control thoughts or speak to one another without ever moving our lips.


I am really excited to see where the potential of these systems takes us. I am currently envisioning a world where instead of ever typing I simply think what I want to appear on the screen and the words appear as I am thinking them. Not like the voice recognition systems that exist today, but where I can have multiple thoughts and have the ones that are meant to be in a paper appear rather than all the things that I go through my mind. Not the thought that this could happen more that this will one day be a reality is what scares me. How will our families be able to communicate with one another, let alone our children be able to have what today is consider normal social behavior.


So for the sake of lives let’s keep going with Cyber kinetics and the potentials it holds but at some point in our future we are going to need to examine where we want things to go and draw the lines of what is too much.

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