Week 3: Response to Content

Brain Chip or Brain Control?

'I-robot' is one of the most recent movies incorporating the investigation of science and technology with the human race. Where robots live amongst humans on a day to day basis and interact with us, mainly as servants. 'Weird Science' has a decent idea; a computerised, extremely attractive woman, definitely 'man-made', however she didn't have the entirety of the internet embedded in her brain readily accessible for her benefit did she? In the reading 'Mind Control over the Internet' the concept of computerised human brains is very interesting however, in today's society, a bit extreme.

Nobody can completely and accurately foretell the future of the Internet, however we can see where the technology we have previously/currently achieved may take us. An example of this new technology evolving is evident in the book Blondie 24 which has created a computer program which can teach itself to play checkers. The book follows the process of generating 'huge numbers of solutions to problems, it then test these solutions, keeps the ones that are better and uses them as parents of future solutions', not giving computers rules or restrictions, but evolutionary process (Berry, T). In other words, a computer program learning from its own mistakes .


Unlike Artificial Intelligence which gives the impression of inserting rules and restrictions into the human body/brain, technology is coming to an age where it might just be able to create programs which learn from their own mistakes and progress individually. This area of work or study then becomes an issue of ethics, privacy and health. Who gains access to this technology? When and where can you use it? If everybody has access to the internet and hacking is already an issue, will people have the ability to hack into your brain?



Souces:

Berry, T, 2011, 'Ideas: Evolutionary Computing and Internet As Brain', Business Insider: War Room Contributors, viewed 10 August 2011.
<http://www.businessinsider.com/ideas-evolutionary-computing-and-internet-as-brain-2011-8>

Halpern, Sue (2011) "Mind Control & the Internet", New York Review of Books June 23. Viewed 10 August 2011.
<http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2011/jun/23/mind-control-and-internet/>


H+, "Brain On a Chip", image, viewed 11 August 2011
<http://hplusmagazine.com/2009/04/07/brain-chip/ >

"Some Sample Movie Pics and HD Setups", image, viewed 11 August 2011
<http://www.aaronwt.net/>