"Mind Control & the Internet"
In this text, by Sue Halpern, she writes about some researcher that worked on putting nanotubes and neural prostetics in the head of people and rats. The aim was to overcome problems like memory loss coming from diseases like Alzheimer’s, and restore the mobility to those who are paralyzed. When talking about this, she brings up a man named Michael Chorost, who has benefited from brain-computer interface after he got completely deaf in 2001. On each of his inner ears there are placed a cochlear implant to fix a deficit he got. In his ideal world we will all be connected to the internet by the help of small neural implants. Chorots is convinced that the rest of the population also should become cyborgs. He thinks that since it worked for him, why wouldn’t it work for the rest?
A science writer named David Ritchie wrote about the same topic in his book, The Binary Brain. He talked about the “biochip” which could make people plug into computers’ memories bank. In only a couple of seconds you had information about everything, like French, history and geography. There would be no interests in going to school as you already had all the information you could possible get. According to Ritchie, this technology is right around the corner, I guess we have to wait and see what happens.
More readings: Michael Chorost's webside:
http://www.michaelchorost.com/index.htm
Resources:
Halpern, S 2011, "Mind Control & the Internett", New York Review of Books
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