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from the Louis-Wu-would-like-a-word-with-you dept.
"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: 2) by LoRdTAW on Saturday December 02 2017, @12:49AM (2 children)
TRIGGERED! Fuuuuuuuuuk! That movie was painful....ah man why did you have to put that... that name at the top. I have to lie down now.
(Score: 2) by darnkitten on Saturday December 02 2017, @02:08AM
Movie?
Oh, right--there was a movie...
I remember thinking at the time that Keanu Reeves was well-cast as Johnny, who was as generally annoying in the story as Keanu was in his other roles at the time. I also remember the SFX not being up to properly rendering the story, especially the arena. Something something dolphins. That's all I remember of the film.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by stormwyrm on Sunday December 03 2017, @05:32AM
Numquam ponenda est pluralitas sine necessitate.