Intel: Chips in brains will control computers by 2020
Brain waves will replace keyboard and mouse, dial phones and change TV channels
By Sharon Gaudin
November 19, 2009 02:40 PM ET
Computerworld - By the year 2020, you won't need a keyboard and mouse to control your computer, say Intel Corp. researchers. Instead, users will open documents and surf the Web using nothing more than their brain waves.
Scientists at Intel's research lab in Pittsburgh are working to find ways to read and harness human brain waves so they can be used to operate computers, television sets and cell phones. The brain waves would be harnessed with Intel-developed sensors implanted in people's brains.
The scientists say the plan is not a scene from a sci-fi movie -- Big Brother won't be planting chips in your brain against your will. Researchers expect that consumers will want the freedom they will gain by using the implant.
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Science fiction becomes reality, that's truly frightening..........Big Brother won't be planting and monitoring the chip in your brain............right.
Researchers expect that
Yes, researchers, as usual, will argue that consumers are free to use or not use such devices but sooner, rather than later, the Combine, and, no, it does not matter, at last report, whether they are Democrats or Republicans, will begin to push a policy line that will eventually require folks to have these chips implanted in their skulls.
You know what the first
You know what the first functional implant will be, right? A cell phone.
The service contract would make fascinating reading. But it would be functional telepathy, and people would want it.