I am a huge fan of science fiction. Playing the What-If Game is always a fun mental exercise with clever people...
What if we didn't have to wait for wireless brain-to-brain communication? For audible and visual brain-to-digital-and-back-to-brain communication?
What if it was an already maturing technology of some twenty years, but currently rested only in the hands of the NSA, CIA, FBI, NGA, IRS, and BLM types? (three letter acronyms only please) :-)
While Huxley and Orwell remain loads of fun on long rainy Saturday afternoons, lets face it, those gentlemen never were quite up-to-speed with what was coming in the Information Age.
What if a disproportionate number of ultra-conservative, secret squirrel, "My name is Smith...Joseph Smith" religious types had been tapping thousands of unwitting brains for years? Simply because of their disproportionate numbers in the organizations above. Tilting the technology in their favor since the 1980's.
What if the NSA had a deeper understanding of the nature of electro-bio-neurology than we had thought possible. Kept well compartmentalized and hidden within the bureaucracy of course. Would it have been for the better that such a thing had been kept secret? Would their hands not have been the best hands in which to entrust such technology?
Feel free to ignore the philosophical challenge. I think most of you have realized by now that I don't put these topics up on the board so that people will comment on them in droves. -eab
This morning I noticed something peculiar in a dream...people speaking with long exaggerated “S” sounds.
I had heard it before in dreams, like only yesterday, but had forgotten until just now.
About 50 minutes ago, at ten minutes before 7:00 AM, I heard a voice say, “Ssssssssstand up.” “Sssssssstand up.” “Sssssssssssssstand up. I sssssaid sssssssstand up.”
Then I heard, “We are too late.” To which another voice asked, “What?” And the first voice returned “With him, we are too late!”
Peculiar isn’t it? A dream like that. I’d heard it before as I slept, and even in the dream, I thought it odd. Ordinarily I wouldn’t pester this blog with such a meaningless detail, but this time I thought I would get it on the record.
That is, in addition to my 657 entry, multi-year dream journal. -eab-
Here's a news report from Sky News Australia that comments on the silent but raging war of international software development in universities and tech firms that makes the exact points I would make, but without the minutia of technical detail regarding Neurology and AI which you frankly wouldn't believe. (hell..I wouldn't believe...)
It should be obvious by now though, that I don't post here to persuade anyone of anything.
From my point-of-view, an entirely private “free-speech” blog is a contradiction, and not as enlightening as one which could be read by anyone, but posted-upon only by registered members.
I have been frequently intrigued with the minds which have attended the topics on Patrick.net, and I thank you, but one particular hypothesis of mine has unfortunately proven accurate.
I am a huge fan of science fiction. Playing the What-If Game is always a fun mental exercise with clever people...
What if we didn't have to wait for wireless brain-to-brain communication? For audible and visual brain-to-digital-and-back-to-brain communication?
What if it was an already maturing technology of some twenty years, but currently rested only in the hands of the NSA, CIA, FBI, NGA, IRS, and BLM types? (three letter acronyms only please) :-)
While Huxley and Orwell remain loads of fun on long rainy Saturday afternoons, lets face it, those gentlemen never were quite up-to-speed with what was coming in the Information Age.
What if a disproportionate number of ultra-conservative, secret squirrel, "My name is Smith...Joseph Smith" religious types had been tapping thousands of unwitting brains for years? Simply because of their disproportionate numbers in the organizations above. Tilting the technology in their favor since the 1980's.
What if the NSA had a deeper understanding of the nature of electro-bio-neurology than we had thought possible. Kept well compartmentalized and hidden within the bureaucracy of course. Would it have been for the better that such a thing had been kept secret? Would their hands not have been the best hands in which to entrust such technology?
Feel free to ignore the philosophical challenge. I think most of you have realized by now that I don't put these topics up on the board so that people will comment on them in droves. -eab