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Man completely paralyzed by ALS asks for a beer via brain implant
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Man completely paralyzed by ALS asks for a beer via brain implant
https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/paral...Y6BGNmXWQU

The future is looking better for people
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RE: Man completely paralyzed by ALS asks for a beer via brain implant
Not much longer till we're brains in vats......
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(March 25, 2022 at 6:43 pm)Foxaire Wrote: Not much longer till we're brains in vats......

I mean, if you want to argue that out skull is a vat….
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RE: Man completely paralyzed by ALS asks for a beer via brain implant
That's amazing. I didn't know we were this close to implementing such technology.
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(March 25, 2022 at 6:49 pm)vulcanlogician Wrote: That's amazing. I didn't know we were this close to implementing such technology.

It’s still pretty slow, though. Just one character per minute. That means it would take him four minutes to simply say “beer.” More complex words would take even longer. A full sentence could take an hour.

But, yeah, there’s some amazing potential here. I can’t wait to see what this technology leads to in 10 or 20 years. Hell, imagine in a hundred years where people who would otherwise be paralyzed are instead fully mobile due to a system of motorized implants throughout their bodies and a brain implant to operate it.
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(March 25, 2022 at 6:55 pm)TaraJo Wrote:
(March 25, 2022 at 6:49 pm)vulcanlogician Wrote: That's amazing. I didn't know we were this close to implementing such technology.

It’s still pretty slow, though.  Just one character per minute.  That means it would take him four minutes to simply say “beer.”  More complex words would take even longer.  A full sentence could take an hour.  

But, yeah, there’s some amazing potential here.  I can’t wait to see what this technology leads to in 10 or 20 years.  Hell, imagine in a hundred years where people who would otherwise be paralyzed are instead fully mobile due to a system of motorized implants throughout their bodies and a brain implant to operate it.

SkyNet would like a word…

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(March 25, 2022 at 6:55 pm)TaraJo Wrote: It’s still pretty slow, though.  Just one character per minute.  That means it would take him four minutes to simply say “beer.”

In that case, I'll have an ale.
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Science and technology fixing gods mistakes again Smile
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I wonder if the story would have gotten as much coverage if the man had spelled out, 'Hookers. Coke.'

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(March 26, 2022 at 5:00 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: I wonder if the story would have gotten as much coverage if the man had spelled out, 'Hookers. Coke.'

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He did.

But "beer" is more PC.
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