I know many of you will see this headline and assume I am about to link to some unknown conspiracy theory website with questionable sources, but you’d be wrong. This post is based on an article from the UK’s Independent that ran this past weekend. In it, reporter Ian Burrell visits Google’s headquarters and essentially fawns over everything google, including “Google Glass,” the company’s creepy new product I highlighted earlier in March in a post: The Really, Really Creepy Thing About “Google Glass.” Ok, well Google Glass is one thing, where do they see this ultimately headed? Yes, chips implanted in your brain. From the Independent:
Soon Google hopes to have the ubiquitous presence of a personal assistant that never stops working, capable of conversing naturally in any language. Ultimately, as Page and co-founder Sergey Brin have asserted, the goal is to insert a chip inside your head for the most effortless search engine imaginable. Some will find this prospect exciting. Others might want to call for Dick Tracy.
The first stage of this new level of intimacy is Google Glass, which I am invited to trial as part of a briefing on the company’s future plans.
The more you hand your life over to Google, the more you get out of this technology.
Where will it end? Gomes agrees that a chip embedded in the brain is far from a sci-fi fantasy. “Already people are beginning to experiment with handicapped people for manoeuvring their wheelchairs,” he says. “They are getting a few senses of direction with the wheelchair but getting from there to actual words is a long ways off. We have to do this in the brain a lot better to make that interaction possible. We have impatience for that to happen but the pieces of technology have to develop.”
Look, I am all for technology and what it can do to advance the species, but humans becoming robots…sorry I just can’t get excited about that one.
Full article here.
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Mike
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“humans becoming robots…sorry I just can’t get excited about that one.”
I share your sentiment. But what’s to stop it? Those who are ‘enhanced’ one way or another potentially could utterly out-compete normal humans.
All the ‘borg’ stories look prescient.
Aw, just submit to google. Never mind the back door put in the chip that will give TPTB direct access to your brain. The collective will look after you.