From Buck
Rogers’ space suit, to the flip phones where the message was usually, ‘Beam me
up Scotty,’ science fiction has been the catalyst for many scientific
developments.
One of my
old man diatribes is that cell phones have become a grafted appendage on the
human race. Whether running from a
terrorist attack, walking down the street or sitting in a restaurant, people
can’t ignore their cell phones.
Stephen King
wrote an apocalyptic novel titled: Cell. The story line begins where every cell phone
provider is hacked and infected with a virus that causes people to turn into
murderous psychopaths when they try to make a phone call. The only people that aren’t affected are
people that have forgotten their phones or old buzzards like me that rarely use
one
We know that
the human brain is effectively a biological computer chip with circuits and
wiring that determine our intelligence and actions. We also know that when certain sections of
the brain are desensitized or damaged, behaviors can be modified.
The brain gives off electrical pulses that
can be measured, and for years, scientist have been trying to decode these voltage
readings.
If you could modify these voltages could you reprogram the brain? Will the time come when the brain could be reprogrammed by
downloading an app?
It might start out as a medical research to repair brain function for Parkinson or
Alzheimer etc. But let your mind
conceive programmable humans.
Is this a
possibility or a probability? And
how far in the future?
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Ol’Buzzard
