Medical Equipment Design

Don't beat around the bush! Don't try to candy coat it! Tell us what you really think.
1) Hackers
2) SPAM
3) Virus'
4) Denial of Service
5) Brain Overload. (dealing with Mondays can be bad enough)
6) Do I really want to have all that information, Good and Bad, at my beck and call?

I'm with you Del!

In an ideal world, hell yeah! Sadly, there will never be such a thing as an ideal world. We're having enough of a struggle just to try to have a world that is just ok and we're not really even close to that.

Just like everything else, what greed doesn't screw up entropy will.

Well they have taught Robots to lie to one another.

Must be training Robot Bankers.

This reminded me of something I heard on the radio recently...

Will new technologies fundamentally change what it means to be human? Inventor and author Ray Kurzweil talks about technological change and its effects on everything from health to artificial intelligence.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5067661

I personally do not think I would want ot be directly connected to the internet via my brain for all of the reasons previously stated.

Cons:

1. The playing field would be leveled for intelligence. Any person could perform any job function because all information for anything would be readily available, No more elite brilliant minds, just millions of people connected to the internet via brain chip

2. Higher education would be pointless. Tests, quizzes, and assignments in general would have no lasting effect on the student because they would either cheat or just copy.

Pros:

1. The gateway to virtual reality. Being an avid gamer virtual reality is the holy grail of video games and this would be the way to do it.

The bad definitely out-weighs the good when it comes to hard-wired brains

Piffle!
#1. The availability of information doesn't equate to the ability to use it!
I can't be bothered to debunk your other assertions.
Del

GA Del! (& #1 as well....ouch!)

Why in this world would Anybody want their brain plugged into all of the mostly useless crap on the internet?

Your brain would spend 99% of its time wading through the mountains of garbage to actually find a useful answer to your query. By the time you did find it you would have forgotten why you needed it in the first place.

It would probably be easy to spot those who were 'plugged in'. They'd most likely be cowering in the nearest corner, glazed-over eyes, rocking and babbling uncontrollably while drooling and pi**ing themselves.

Unbelievable! </rant>

Wow,

I can imagine G. Orwell writing now a novel "2084 Farm" in which all farm animals are wireless connected to a centralised net (controlled by Pig Brother)

Ancient romans said "Numerus stultorum infinitus est". Obviously romans didn't know about Cantor theories on transfinite numbers!!!!!

Kind regards

I wouldn't do it. Just to add to the spam/invasive line of thinking, there are other compelling reasons why not.

I'm willing to bet that "Zogby International's poll" didn't involve any realistic equivalent of "informed consent" required for such a medical procedure.

Informed meaning informed of the medical risks. No matter how good they get at designing biocompatible materials, there are always going to be significant health risks associated with any kind of neural or brain implant. The actual, documented risk profiles on "therapeutic" brain implants are prohibitive to any rational healthy person. Including some level of risk of outright mortality. Parapalegia or other neurological disabilities. Immune dysfunction. etc. What percentage of the people surveyed would be willing to take even a 1% chance of death due to the procedure? Even a ten percent chance (for example) of developing chronic pain, or twitching, or suffering brain damage, etcetera etcetera. Asking people whether they'd agree to a recreational, unnecessary implant without quantifying the risks is completely bogus.

As for the notion of a brain implant that would render you immune to disease, where the hell did this science fiction come from? More likely to cause immune collapse, or require immune suppression drugs. I don't know of any basis on which a chip could accomplish 'disease prevention'. It's not even good science fiction.

First of all you are not talking about hard wiring as that would entail hard wires. I am already connected to the internet. My input devices are my ears and eyes. What you are talking about is by passing the current input devices with a brain implant. The only real advantage is that it could be available 24/7 but for many reasons you probably would not want that. I am already connected whenever I desire. I think I will use the current input devices thank you.