[extropy-chat] Gates: Get ready for chip implants

Giu1i0 Pri5c0 pgptag at gmail.com
Tue Jul 5 12:57:29 UTC 2005


CNN <http://edition.cnn.com/2005/TECH/07/04/gates.implants.ap/> reports that 
Bill Gates thinks computers will be implanted in the human brain someday. 
Though not volunteering for the process, he acknowledges this is the 
direction technology is moving toward.
Technological advances will one day allow computers to be implanted in the 
human body and could help the blind see and the deaf hear, according to Bill 
Gates.
Meshing people directly with computers has been a science fiction subject 
for years, from downloading memories onto computer chips to replacement 
robotic limbs controlled by brain waves. The fantasy is coming closer to 
reality as advances in technology mean computers are learning to interact 
with human characteristics such as voices, touch -- even smell.
[Gates] cited author Ray Kurzweil <http://www.kurzweilai.net/>, whom he 
called the best at predicting the future of artificial intelligence, as 
believing that such computer-human links would become mainstream.
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