July 08 2008 / by Virulent
Category: Relationships Year: 2020 Rating: 11
An oldie but a goodie.
Brain-pacemakers are being used to treat patients suffering from
severe depression and the potentials of the technology are being
expanded on. What happens when brain stimulation is safe and not
only reserved to people suffering from disorders? 
“Brain pacemakers” are used to treat people who suffer from
epilepsy, Parkinson’s disease, clinical depression and other
diseases. The pacemaker is a medical device that is implanted into
the brain to send electrical signals into the tissue.
For those of you who don’t know what they are the paragraph
above is the first sentence from the wikipedia article and as you
can see the treatment the technology provides is quite vast and
immediate.
Lets look down the winding road a little bit and consider what a
world it would be like if these pacemakers become easy to implant
and remove self maintaining and powering. A nanobot for
stimulation?! what scientist would dare consider such a thing.
Well i found an article a while back in wired which had this to
claim:
Implant Achieves Female Orgasm
One woman undergoing treatment for back pain may have
discovered a cure for the thousands of woman frustrated by the
inability to achieve orgasm. While Dr. Stuart Meloy was putting an
electrode into the woman’s spine in an attempt to ease her chronic
pain, he not only reduced her back pain, but gave her an unexpected
– but delightful – side-effect. (cont.)
“She said, ‘You’re going to have to teach my husband how to
do that’,” Meloy, an anesthesiologist and pain specialist in
Winston-Salem, North Carolina, said. The discovery is published in
Wednesday’s issue of New Scientist.
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February 29 2008 / by Virulent
Category: Other Year: Beyond Rating: 8
As the lines between human and biological entities blur, and
sophisticated mind communication networks are formed, what could be
the potential impacts on society? 
Imagine a world some point during the middle of the 21st century
where virtual communities and direct mind to mind communication is
possible at ever increasing speeds, Where human-machine entities
can share information they choose at near the speed of light from
any positions on the globe, imagine being able to understand almost
as if it were your own cognitive processes how to read and write
Japanese as someone from japan, or understand medicine or physics
like a PhD graduate.
Difficult to imagine? Perhaps sounding a bit like the Borg from
star-trek? well resistance is futile because the explosive nature
of Nanotechnology, biotechnology, artificial intelligence and most
importantly information transfer all point towards a future much
more vast and incomprehensible than this.
Since the dawn of single celled organisms life has grown to
complex networks of single cells to organisms to human cognition
itself and each explosion is not only an explosion in the
capability to manipulate and adapt to the environment, its also an
explosion in consciousness itself. And best of all it functions on
very simple evolutionary principles that hold to this day (albeit
in a slightly more complex batch of interactions).
To imagine what i mean think of a petri dish called earth and
place inside that petri dish one single celled organism, provide it
with a suitable environment and watch it divide exponentially till
copies of itself cover the whole petri dish. Well then what?
(cont.)
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