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    that is of course just the beginning, man machine interface is coming our way, are we ready?

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    Michael Garrett     Wed, Jan 16, 2008  Permanent link
    Interesting how the object of the game always seems to be the satisfaction of killing someone, even if it is just in the game. Makes me realize that the genesis for these products may have been the military application and consumers pay for the research by purchasing the spin off game.
    Wildcat     Wed, Jan 16, 2008  Permanent link
    that may just be a marketing pitch, nothing more. however imagine the possible implication of such a technology once we get rid of the violence. many products and technologies find their genesis in military applications , which does in no fashion imply about their future usage and /or developments for the benefit of the common good.
    Michael Garrett     Wed, Jan 16, 2008  Permanent link
    I understand the pitch, it's just interesting to me how the pitch is, hey and look, you can kill the other guy. Military robots are on the battle field and in the air and no one can deny they have other actual practical applications we could call for the common good.

    When the monkey was first able to move the cursor on the video screen without moving his hand on the joy stick, the implications of those tests were enormous. My wife has spent a lifetime working with the severely handicapped and disabled. She has used systems developed by Kurzweil to facilitate speech for people who have never spoken. A technological advance in the area of the mind controlling objects would truly be a welcome relief for a whole lot of people.
    sjef     Wed, Jan 16, 2008  Permanent link
    I doubt that the object of the game is 'the satisfaction of killing people', it's just that for good gameplay you need to create tension and a sense of achievement, and conflict just happens to be the easiest way to achieve this, hence its prevalence in videogames.
    A similar effect can be achieved with puzzles, but if you're putting together a rough tech demo, why would you spend time on figuring them out when you can also just whack a table into a dude and go, 'Woah splatter, sweet!'.

    You're probably right about technologies such as these having originally been developed by the military, but that research would have been paid for years ago out of your tax money.
    jozhall     Thu, Jan 17, 2008  Permanent link
    What ever the object of the game may be, the technology behind it is amazing! Are we any closer to the matrix?
    meganmay     Fri, Jan 18, 2008  Permanent link
    I was watching this with a friend just after reading your post about superhuman vision and she said:
    "I feel like in the next ten years our world is going to be really crazy."

    Whenever someone has this epiphany I can just feel this borderline euphoria rising up in my corpus because I can feel that it's true, and it's amazing how undeniable it is that the world is changing, and that we are changing. It makes me crazy to think that anyone would be sitting around complaining that nothings going on in the world or in their lifetimes or in their lives. I was just looking at a floppy disk the other day and a friend pointed out that it held 1.2 MB. 1.2 MB! and 5 times the size of a 1.2 GB flash drive. Having been born the same year the Apple 2C came out, I'm part of one of the first generations of humans to grow up side by side with computers and it's really interesting to be living at this juncture where your whole life has been so shaped by a technology, yet you can still perceive this world-changing shift. A shift that requires people to be prepared for anything and everything. shit. planet earth is the happeningest spot to be right now!
         Fri, Jan 18, 2008  Permanent link
    Megan: How crazy the next 5, 10, 20... rest of my lifetime years are going to be is all I can think about these days.

    All I'm worried about is who gets to decide how they're going to go. If you end up as one of the people who is not aware of everything that's about to transpire you're probably not going to benefit from it at all, in fact, probably the opposite.

    Be prepared or face the consequences.
     
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