Topic awaiting preservation: This is a chilling thought... (Page 1 of 1)

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/sunday/commentary/la-op-garreau17jul17,0,3719869.story?coll=la-home-sunday-opinion

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Robotics is allowing unprecedented connections between the human brain and our machine creations, blurring the distinction between the made and the born. Matthew Nagle, a paralyzed young Boston man, last summer became the first human to send an e-mail with his thoughts. A computer device implanted into his brain by a company called Cyberkinetics can read his neurons as they fire. This also allows him to control a robotic arm. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency ? the research arm of the Pentagon ? is funding similar research because an F-22 is a difficult machine to fly with a joystick. How much simpler it would be, they reason, if a pilot could control it directly with his brain. Images and alarms collected by the plane could be piped directly to her senses, bypassing computer screens and keyboards.

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What will it mean to your family if your kids are greatly more capable mentally than you are? Did any fathers ask their daughters to fix the Model T, the way we now routinely hand a balky cellphone to our offspring? The relationship between who learns and who teaches, which has been stable for millenniums, has been upturned: "You looked at the previous generation to learn how to live yourself. That's no longer possible," explains anthropologist Mary Catherine Bateson.

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Kind of makes you think...
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Someone's been watching too much sci-fi...

...to her senses...
...their daughters to fix...

So annoying.

I'm pretty confident children have understood new technology better than their parents throughout history, it's no huge mystery.

Anyways, ya...robotics have no business in the military realm, but then neither do guns...

I'm not going to be happy when people start modifying themselves with hardware like they do in Neuromancer, either. That'll be lightyears worse than women getting plastic surgery nowadays.

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reisio said:

I'm pretty confident children have understood new technology better than their parents throughout history, it's no huge mystery.

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Yeah, I'd agree; it's just that the trick is, that up until recently technology changed so slowly that nobody noticed, so it didn't matter.

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