Sony ready to beams messages directly into consumers brains

[MikeH]

Originally posted by Dissident
just how long before microsoft actually controls our brains?

I dunno, but we could ask Asher what it's like.

[Mercator]

The obvious next step is some geeks implementing a peer-to-peer variant of this. Directly download music porn into your brain from someone else's brain.

[ixnay]

A Sony Electronics spokeswoman told the magazine that no experiments had been conducted, and that the patent "was based on an inspiration that this may someday be the direction that technology will take us."

"We haven't actually done this, but someday, if someone invents this, Sony will own it"

[MikeH]

Surely you can't patent something you haven't invented? That's retarded.

[Combat Ingrid]

True, you can't patent something you didn't invent. I mean, imagine if you for example could patent genes. Now THAT would be really retarded

[Lancer]

Wait until the porn industry gets a hold of this tech.


My point is, there's something fishy about this.

[General Ludd]

The technique could one day be used to ... help people who are blind or deaf

Yeah, cause that's just what they need... televisions blaring in their mind all day.

[Space05us]

Commercial free and proud.

[Skanky Burns]

:tass:

[Wycoff]

Re: Sony ready to beams messages directly into consumers brains

Originally posted by Geronimo
So how long before we start having commercials beamed into our brains ala Futurama?

I swear that Nintendo already has this technology. Back in 1996, just prior to the release of the N 64, I had a dream in which the message "Buy the Nintendo N 64, it's being released next week" was repeated over and over, along with clips of the games being released. Very creepy, but effective. I bought the N64 on release day.

[Dracon II]

Originally posted by pchang
Not only that, but things are not stored in the same area for everyone. It would have to be mapped per person.

So for this technology to work, they would have to be able to read our minds? Maybe soon we'll have that big pyramid thing from CtP that makes us all happy little workers... until it revolts and splits the nation in half

The whole patent on an uninvented thing is ridiculous also. Does this mean Company X can say something like "If the cure for cancer is ever invented, we will own it 'cause we bought a futures patent on it!! Haha!!! Haha!!!!"

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[:) Smiley]

There's a risk to patenting uninvented stuff, however- patents are good for only 20 years from the filing date. So, maybe we can expect a product on the market in the next couple of decades.

[Dr Strangelove]

A patent lasts for what? Seventeen years? I don't think that technology will progress that far by 2022.