Intel wants brain implants in its customers' heads by 2020

forgive my adorning posts, I just thought absent any humor that Agent_Alpha was a bit too sexy for a sober consideration of the topic =P hopefully I've managed to tarnish the anime sex aura that was steaming up your monitor =P girls and guns...girls and guns =P

I think it would just be weird, because then people would just start texting ever one else through their implants. Eventually we stop talking to each other all together and essentially we would all be mines :O

THOUGHT POLICE!!!

Hmm, as with all things in technology. I can't imagine what the initial costs would be just to have it installed, but the cost of maintaining such a device in working order and "virus-free" ......it's just not appealing.

I'm all for trans-humanism and improving on our biological features but I wouldn't get just ONE piece of technology added to an already existing body part that can fail on me at any time just like all the other organs I currently rely on.

Lets just hope they don't discontinue anatomy and physiology lessons in schools, this could lead to a set of consumers that really would believe they are buying "improvements"

Sorry, I just had to ghosthack your eyes.

Imagine if you got a virus in your implant, you'd be changing the traffic lights down the street or opening your neighbors garage door or something.

WTF mark of the beast 666. scary shi

It is extremely concerning to allow my brainwaves be on internet or anyone's hands. We are already controlled via media, cultural and political conditioning. Implants will allow a lot more control over a freedom of thought we have.

At my job I work alot with speech recognition technology which is basically the same as what those intel folks try to do with your brainwaves.

They need to recognize patterns in your brainwaves specific for some intent and general enough to do this with the brainwaves of thousands of people. Unless they are going to try and tailor each chip to their owners.

No matter what exactly they are going to do they will most likely want to "share" your patterns via the internet at least to improve their ways of pattern recognition. Because in pattern recognition, the more sample data you have the better your recognition will get. Take speech recognition as an example. Current speech recognition software is more and more moving into the cloud because of the big pool of samples from different sources that is being stored there. Thus improving speech recognition.

My conclusion is based on what happens with other pattern recognition technology it is most likely that those chips will seek, at least sporadically, connection to the internet and thus give some of your brainwave data into third hands.

As to the drone theory which states that we are all going to be controllable i am not yet sure. What I took from the article was that this planned device is there to "scan" your brainwaves not to synthesize them. That would be much more difficult as you would have to be able to induce stimuli across entire parts of the brain.

this is fucking evolution.

sounds like a plan to control peoples thoughts and actions. intels customers will become a super army determined to takeover the world. if hitler were alive today hed probably be head chairman of intel

No, I think that with this technology there would be a bigger danger from the public messing around with the tech, like hackers and jailbreakers of today's tech than from the government.

I hate the idea of a part "computer" brain. I'm sure some great products could come out of it, but it'll just make us lazier. Also, the brain is already a perfect design, why feel the need to fix something that isn't broken.

I hate the idea of a part "computer" brain. I'm sure some great products could come out of it, but it'll just make us lazier. Also, the brain is already a perfect design, why feel the need to fix something that isn't broken.

I await the day of the oracle to speak to me...

What ever sure that in the 80's when someone even mention the idea of being connected every where all the time a lot of people got scared (Internet). Time will show us the technology we gonna get, hopefully nothing else will divide society even more.

If I see anyone from Intel flying or multiplying, I won't be surprised in the least

hey, no thanks. I don't need a chip in my brain thank you

What happens when your implant crashes?

its the mark of the beast, next is the anti christ man

im not sure... but i know i have seen this before... was it the outer limits or twilight zone....

either way... everyone gets jacked up with these chips, everything is running along nicely until a virus starts killing people

and some guy who does not have the chip in his head because of a condition is their only saving grace...

ya... this is a bad idea... when crap like that starts becoming a reality you need to take a step back... and look at what we are doing to ourselves.

THATS AMAZING! Intel is so innovative. Now, I figure that the tech won't be too much of a problem. I mean there will be limitations, there just somethings that will not be allowed. And there isn't going to be some kind of Surrogates or Matrix type thing, its just going to be as common as bluetooth headsets. No biggie.

how about i *don't* get brain surgery so i can turn off my monitor from across the room?

The purpose? money..! but i have a better idea for them to make more money: implant Libido into people's finger.

tell me if im being a little stupid/paranoid, but isn't this the type of thing all "robots kill humans" movies are based off of
with a network like that i already see many...flaws
I'm guessing the thing that will be connected to your brain will be connected to an infrastructure of some sort, that connects you, the network, and compatible devices
who is to say someone cant hack into the devices? and you'll always be connected to the network, it'll track you, always know where you are, what your currently doing, and might even know other personal things the machine will pick up. im sure something like that would be tracked or controlled by the government. what kind of battery would this device use? since its inside you, there wont be replaceable batteries. rechargeable batteries would be awkward, i dont want a plug in the back of my head. nuclear energy batteries would be downright dangers, as this would become popular and many people would have it, someone could easily take the enriched material inside it (Uranium 235, the isotope used to make nuclear weapons) after its installed inside you. anyone heard of cell phones exploding and releasing all sorts of toxins? imagine that inside or close to your brain. pretty soon the government will want this for the military and it will become standard issue. i know terminator seems far fetched, but come on! we still control the robots with our minds you might say, but this is just the first step! computers can already make limited decisions for themselves, soon theyll be able to think and become self aware.
i dont like where this is going...

These nerds are fuckin' crazy. They need to have their legs broken. It's one thing to use this type of technology to help, say, paraplegics, but you know what would happen once the government gets its fingers in things......

way too creepy for me, if and when this comes around i'm gonna kick old school with a keyboard and mouse.

Do any of you have any clue how this technology works? Obviously not, this "chip" is just a sensor. It doesn't control you it just monitors your brain waves. Microsoft will never make it a law that you have to have one. And other companies will make devices you can just wear like a headband etc. Think of what this technology would do for the handicap. Stop being hysterical about everything and study the technology if you don't want it to take over your life. Cell phones and the RFR frequencies being broadcast are far more dangerous. I know it's fun to over react. But if this technology can get a handicapped person of unemployment, disability and over compensating healthcare there will be more resources for people that still can't find help from technology. Stop being so paranoid and realize we will absolutely need technology like this to overcome overpopulation and interplanetary conquest vs. Alien life forms.

My brain is ready for some upgrade :D

Tell someone not to think of a pink elephant and they can't help it. We would all be firing off shit accidentally and constantly.

Even if the technology was in place, there is no way that everyone could exert that type of collected mind control. We are not a focused life form... our minds are everywhere at once and that will render this useless for most.

For gods sake half of america is on Lexapro just to be able to focus on positive things in the natural mind. What the hell makes us think we can fire off pin pointed thoughts so precise that it triggers the proper application?

That might work.

I want an implant that will let me mentally direct a catapult to throw a hammer through my monitor screen whenever it shows me an error message.

I can't help but assume they are gonna put a tiny little bomb in each one so If you rat on Intel, pop goes the weasel.

Very Dangerous, never give up control of your mind. I can't believe anyone would be so naive to think that its not the real begining of big brother controlling your thought process. The people at Intel will know better than to allow it to be implanted in their brains. Well maybe a lot of the brainless people on current need it.

And in the event of massive hard drive failure that intel is all too well known for...what then?

i see this going about as far as controlling everything with your voice, it would be good if it worked right, but it never works well enough to really matter.

Remote controllable "humans".

OH NOES!!!!!
This is terrible news!
Well not now it isn't.
Oh but later in the not-so-distant future
everyone's going to have them inside their heads!
then whoever is controlling those will do..........
i'd rather not think about it....
or maybe i'm just over reacting
but still it's kinda scary

Fuck chips, implants, vaccines...anyone accepting this is a pathetic waste of life.

Take the red pill and see just how far down the rabbit hole goes...

Agricultural, Industrial, Technological...the next Revolution will be that of Material - the examples are: LHC, these Brain Wave Devices...time travel...

screw intel... plus y would i gi let a corporation ( an evil on etoo) access to my brain!

Hey Intel, anything you do to my life, I do to your face, Assimilate this, pissants.

New World Order anyone?

The Singularity is near.

Big brother is near, easy button everything! Lets hope its not mandatory or we are all doomed!

Some day we will have memory augmentation and extra data processors for the brain, when this happens the people who choose not to enhance will be at a huge disadvantage. Good luck trying to get a job over someone whose brain runs thousands of times faster and has a photographic memory.

does it come with a free darth vader mask?

...the more technology the world gets... the more lazy people become... also the less self-reliant people become. I don't like this idea... corporations could be making stuff more important than stuff like this.

Mac or pc? I'd go Mac. Less viruses

cool, but no thanks. i'll be old fashioned if / when that happens.

This is just one of those "A and/or B" situations. It's great scientifically, practically. But it's not so great for concern of malfunction or 'hacking' or things of that matter. People steal Social Security numbers and IDs and get away... what if someone hacked into your brain and controlled you? Sci-Fi!! Cool thought to entertain.... :)

I am not about to be controlled by a freaking retail giant.

I'll got the Mod chip[Xbox] route.. haha

An upgrade would be welcome. I look forward to new enhancements and modifications.

Yes, but how does it account gadget envy. Needs to be around the back of the ear. The more expensive ones should have a monogrammed titanium housing - so people can affect their particular snobbery.
They do want to make money - right? gotta be fashionable.

I just can't wait. This is just what the Goverment wants. That way they can hack into your brain and tell when your going to commet a crime. Better yet they can control your thoughts. Any one that lets someone put an inplant in there head is flat out nuts.

I hope people do not latch onto this idea... It is only asking for trouble......