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this post, and sub. great example of how it doesn't matter what the rules say, you're going to get it anyway

Four hours in, near the top of the sub, no statement from the OP, and no mod action.

Colour. Me. Surprised.

It's a self-post. Those are excluded. The links are not.

If it's open source, sign me up!

Me too! These advancements are endlessly interesting to me. (I regularly horrify my husband & other ct friends with my fascination with robotics/grinders, ha.)

I know this is completely anecdotal, but I noticed all the movie previews at The Last Jedi were of either cyborgs/robots, living in a matrix, or genetic modification... and a stick in time. It seems like hollywood is getting us primed for the future.

I think that's more a sign of the direction of sci-fi. Things that used to be sci-fi are now reality or right around the corner and current technology has focused the likely direction of our advancement potentially narrowing what is a believable future scenario.

You say that like it's a bad thing. Sure they may be potential risks of an implant being hacked but if we had these technologies on hand at all times, all the better for our species.

Better how? More convenient for the modern world, perhaps, but it doesn't improve us biologically - if the implants were to fail after humans became dependant on them, people would be as helpless as flatworms. Evolution of a species isn't the same thing as technological advancement. People can't even do basic math without a computer anymore. Take away the technology and what remains is the true measure of humanity.

Our mind and memory are imperfect. Why rely on them if infinite knowledge can be at our fingertips. Take away technology and you have no way to disagree with me.

if minds and memory are imperfect (tentatively agreed), then what is this "infinite knowledge" and how did it ever come to exist in the first place?

I'm not saying we have infinite knowledge per se. We are talking about future tech so, if we are all implanted with smart tech, a small computer/phone in your arm, we have the makings of a neural net. We can be one when it comes to information. If we all connected, as a species through tech, we would be better. That may be optimistic but that's the future I see.

and let me guess - in this techno-panopticon worldview it follows that it's actually unethical to not get implanted

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I'm not sure what that is supposed to mean.

Rifd chip?

Elon is already invested in a company to bridge the gap

I can't wait to download karate and advanced theoretical astrophysics directly into my brain.

I want a CPU in my head but without the strings.

Exactly!

You could learn that stuff without an implant. It will just be a lot harder.

Our wetware is but only so fast.

Most definitely! I already know basic physics and Marine Corps martial arts. But hell. Time is not on my side. Maybe if I could stop working and learn instead! That would be nice, eh?

Pre-bundled with: OBEY, CONFORM, CONSUME.

$9.99 for an additional sense of Pride and Accomplishment.

And a tiny charge of C4 just in case they have to blow my brain stem!

And available in all MoM Stores a Ross the Galaxy :D

Guys they do this without implants, just using microwave weapons like at US embassy in Cuba. They're influencing your thoughts already u just aren't aware of it.

mark of the beast

Exactly. Anyone who chooses to directly and permanently Neuralink with some hive mind artificial intelligence hub better realize that’s the last free will choice they ever make. Anyone stupid enough to do it deserves exactly what they get.

I'd love to implant a device into my brain that I can program myself... I'm fine with an android..

The same way they have people paying to send their DNA to a database, for everything from genealogy to weight loss.

Just wait until stupid parents agree to let the government require implants for newborns. Then you're doomed from birth. Luckily I'll be dead by then.

It's antichristianity in full bloom.

Earth could support basic traditional lifestyles.

USA is the biggest polluter, biggest economy, biggest factor in climate change.

And yet 'the future' is defined and pushed by Jesus-denying Jewish Americans (and no I don't hate Jews, but look at tghe owners of Oculus, Google, CNN, etc etc.... they're not exactly Amish)

Whoever is exited about connecting to an AI hivemind need to realize only the wealthy get to reap the benefits of this while it's used for surveillance and control purposes on the rest of us, for example my brainwaves are constantly monitored and they induce painful feelings remotely whenever I do something good, not fun.

Why didn't you post a link to the article?

If you're interested in this sort of thing I'd suggest looking into Dr. Jose Delgado. He did some amazing things with electronic stimulation of the brain using implants he called "Stimoceivers" during Project Bluebird (Bluebird's wiki used to say that MKUltra was a limited hangout to direct attention away from its more nefarious sister).

https://www.wanttoknow.info/bluebird10pg

Much more interesting to me is that he said in an interview before his death that chips are now passe- that he could get all the same results and control people remotely using only EM waves.

"Do you remember how we thought of Franco?" says his wife. "Imagine being able to turn off the Generalisimo." Delgado responds "But who could have put the electrodes into the dictator? With electromagnetic radiation we could have controlled the dictator from a distance. We did some experiments at Yale where we influenced the brain from up to 30 meters away."

We take up Delgado's research on electromagnetic fields and their effect on people. "I could later do with electro-magnetic radiation what I did with the stimoceiver. It's much better because there's no need for surgery," he explains.

http://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/2/psychcivilization.php

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And transmitted from mother to fetus via the umbilical cord.

I think that's more a sign of the direction of sci-fi. Things that used to be sci-fi are now reality or right around the corner and current technology has focused the likely direction of our advancement potentially narrowing what is a believable future scenario.