Monday 14 November 2011

When there are 100,000 channels

A friend of mine was joking about who would hold the remote, when there were 100,000 channels. I replied, no-one will be holding it, the remote will be interlinked to your brain.
A few posts back, I was talking about human-computer integration,and positing various possible scenarios. With alarming rapidity, one of these scenarios is now a reality - a viable interface that is not implanted, and has high resolution.
How long before we have equipment that allows us to access our smartphones,which are micro-computers, after all, not 'phones' at all....directly via our brains? How long before our brains can directly access wikipedia, for example? Or a dictionary? I think we are looking at quite a short time window.

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