Did Ronald Dumsfield watch the Matrix? Does this scare anybody else????

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http://www.wired.com/news/technology/medtech/0,71364-0.html?tw=rss.partnerfeed

"A new brain-computer-interface technology could turn our brains into automatic image-identifying machines that operate faster than human consciousness....

Darpa, or the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, is funding research into the system with hopes of making federal agents' jobs easier. The technology would allow hours of footage to be very quickly processed, so security officers could identify terrorists or other criminals caught on surveillance video much more efficiently."

Coragryph, it's fallacious to assume that this is all that I am worried about with what is going on, so cut the crap.

For over a year now, the technology has existed to graft computer chips to neuronal tissue - originally published Scientific American (you look it up) but here's a nerd link if you like.... http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/06/03/0710219&from=rss

I'm not particularly worried about Govt implanting me, but I have see the crap they use for "datamining" not to mention the inefficiency of "computer-based language interpretors".

If you've a head for stats figure out how many guppies get caught for every shark... While they scare the hell out of us with WMDs, they creep deeper and deeper in fascism.

While I respect your education and expertise, I feel that you are naive in your assessment of what level of competency of technology US is willing to put into practice or the ignorance and deceit they will use to do so... if you doubt that google "Adak Aleuts and Anchika Workers" or "Navajo Nations Battle the NRC" or use links such as

http://carbon.cudenver.edu/public/fwc/Issue10/Americas/IEN-2.html

and in the quest for viscous crude in Alaska the totally ineffective/destructive use of low-frequency sound waves http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/print/3212.

IMO, when you combine the technology cited with newer advances by corps such as Raytheon is developing ACTIVE DENIAL SYSTEM: http://www.eyepod.org/Weapons-ADS.html (It is in existence and has been used recently in Iraq)

http://futurefeeder.com/index.php/archives/2005/01/25/new-ai-with-cognitive-vision/ and http://futurefeeder.com/index.php/archives/2005/11/03/implantable-miniature-telescope/

I see concern, here & there.

Answer 1

With all the things going on in the world, this is what you worry about?

Human brains already process visual information faster than most computer systems, and the amount of computing power necessary to run neural algorithms with faster pattern recognition is not something that can be plugged into the human brain.

There's a lot of technology out there. As with anything else, it's how it's used that matters.

I'd be much more worried about the arsenal that the administration controls before worrying about something that is decades away from being effective.

Answer 2

Rumsfeld is an alien.

Answer 3

It scares me......quick....give me a blue pill.