Sunday, August 3, 2014

Star Wars (Neural IMplants)

I like technology.  The science of "Neural Implants".  I enjoyed watching "The Six Million Dollar Man."  I think Lee Majors liked bringing the character to life.  I watched Star Wars the epsisode where Anakin Skywalker is taken by the "Emperor".  Anakin becomes Darth Vader.  To run all of this hardware I am thinking you needmore than just your own brain matter. In walks deep neural implants.  Since our brains sends out signals in the Milivolts. This for hardware is pretty weak.  Our Nerve Tissue Brains are happy though to run our neuromuscular functions with milivolts and miliamps.  But what about those bionic prosthetics, they probably need a lot more power so I am thinking if current neural implants can map electrical power in our brains with nano wires theycan probably send out their own currents affecting our behaviours as well as using other devices to amplify our brains signals.  So I see two sides for the same technology.  The benevolent medical usage as well as the weaponized military applications.  Maybe that is why in the sci-fibook"The Last Days of Crypton", the author did make mention of a BRANIAC created by the "Techno-gods."  Thats pretty much sums up what could happen.   Fortunately today we still have "Ethical Scientist" working for humanity in the fields of neurotechnologies.  Where do the monies come from for this type of research will in the interim determine the usageof the developing technolgies.