Re: OT: Hardware-to-Organism Interfaces (h2oi)
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- vastly superior computers... think 100-1000x faster than today
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someone posted a link a while ago about a company that's developed an 8000GHZ optical computer. the article said about ten years to get it into mass production.
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and I have seen photos of individual neurons grown onto tiny little circuit Boards with itty-bitty little electrode pegs to hold it in place and stop it from growing away from (rejecting) the electronics.
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ugh. borg is bad. 
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They couldn't leave it in -- it was too big, and the immune system would have rejected it anyway. But it did show that interfacing to the optic nerve was sufficient -- you don't have to interface to the brain directly.
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wonder if they could use electromagnets and not interface directly to get around that.
[ February 06, 2004, 19:45: Message edited by: narf poit chez BOOM ]
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