"What I think is so interesting is that the future is always flying cars," Leuthardt says, handing the resident his Sharpie and picking up a scalpel. "They captured the dystopian component: they talk about biology, the replicants. But they missed big chunks of the future. Where were the neural prosthetics?"
It's a topic that Leuthardt, a 44-year-old scientist and brain surgeon, has spent a lot of time imagining. In addition to his duties as a neurosurgeon at Washington University in St. Louis, he has published two novels and written an award-winning play aimed at "preparing society for the changes ahead." In his first novel, a techno-thriller called RedDevil 4, 90 percent of human beings have elected to get computer hardware implanted directly into their brains. This allows a seamless connection between people and computers, and a wide array of sensory experiences without leaving home. Leuthardt believes that in the next several decades such implants will be like plastic surgery or tattoos, undertaken with hardly a second thought.
The article reports Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg are working on neural implants as well.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by bob_super on Friday December 01 2017, @07:58PM (2 children)
Botnet In Your Soul (TM).
Oblig: https://xkcd.com/644/ [xkcd.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 01 2017, @11:41PM
Band: They Might Be Connected?
(Score: 2) by mhajicek on Saturday December 02 2017, @01:41AM
Gotta get yourself connected, the writing's on the wall. 'Cause if your mind's neglected, stumble, you might fall.
The spacelike surfaces of time foliations can have a cusp at the surface of discontinuity. - P. Hajicek