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posted by martyb on Friday December 01 2017, @07:48PM   Printer-friendly
from the Louis-Wu-would-like-a-word-with-you dept.

Want, or Do Not Want?

"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.


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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by bob_super on Friday December 01 2017, @07:58PM (2 children)

    by bob_super (1357) on Friday December 01 2017, @07:58PM (#604017)

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 01 2017, @11:41PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 01 2017, @11:41PM (#604098)

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  • (Score: 2) by mhajicek on Saturday December 02 2017, @01:41AM

    by mhajicek (51) on Saturday December 02 2017, @01:41AM (#604124)

    Gotta get yourself connected, the writing's on the wall. 'Cause if your mind's neglected, stumble, you might fall.

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