If it was like some brain trauma institute or something funding this I wouldn't be as concerned but this is funded by the Pentagon, which is not exactly in the business of medical miracles. People don't seem too concerned about how this tech could be used and abused, and as long as there really is a good use for it they seem to have no problem spending their and our money on it. It's like the drugs where the side effects are often worse than whatever it's supposed to treat, a lot of people don't seem to care about the other effects. Like gmo foods too.
They've been hacking into human brains a little already, but they've never been able to replace brain tissue and certainly not "“Our goal is to understand — and then be able to change — how a brain responds to trauma.”" 'change how a brain responds' That just sounds like a baaaaad idea. Could you imagine the pentagon's uses when this tech gets mastered; interrogations, direct-brain-controlled political puppets, brain scanning in courts or for police in the field, soul-less darth-vader-like things that are more machine than human and potentially "live" for hundreds or even thousands of years because of the ability to replace even brain matter with inorganic material; the walking dead.
Over-dramatic, perhaps, but I just don't trust the Pentagon to steer this research. I hope they can get some funding elsewhere to help brain-injured vets and I think the Pentagon should stick to building a better helmet.
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If it was like some brain trauma institute or something funding this I wouldn't be as concerned but this is funded by the Pentagon, which is not exactly in the business of medical miracles. People don't seem too concerned about how this tech could be used and abused, and as long as there really is a good use for it they seem to have no problem spending their and our money on it. It's like the drugs where the side effects are often worse than whatever it's supposed to treat, a lot of people don't seem to care about the other effects. Like gmo foods too.
ReplyDeleteThey've been hacking into human brains a little already, but they've never been able to replace brain tissue and certainly not "“Our goal is to understand — and then be able to change — how a brain responds to trauma.”" 'change how a brain responds' That just sounds like a baaaaad idea. Could you imagine the pentagon's uses when this tech gets mastered; interrogations, direct-brain-controlled political puppets, brain scanning in courts or for police in the field, soul-less darth-vader-like things that are more machine than human and potentially "live" for hundreds or even thousands of years because of the ability to replace even brain matter with inorganic material; the walking dead.
Over-dramatic, perhaps, but I just don't trust the Pentagon to steer this research. I hope they can get some funding elsewhere to help brain-injured vets and I think the Pentagon should stick to building a better helmet.
Yes, I agree . . . Doesn't seem too dramatic to me, the idea of zombies stems from somewhere . . . Yikes! Very Baaa-d!
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