"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 maxwell demon on Saturday December 02 2017, @09:59AM (1 child)
If humanity gets connected into a hive mind, is then every sex just a form of masturbation?
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 2) by MostCynical on Saturday December 02 2017, @10:26AM
Is the singularity the ultimate onanistic act?
Also, the question could be asked of any sex act where only one participant is enjoying themself.
"I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex