http://hydragenic.com/2003/10/29/brainbox/ Tue, 24 Apr 2012 13:41:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://hydragenic.com/2003/10/29/brainbox/comment-page-1/#comment-1674 Daniel Wed, 29 Oct 2003 14:17:46 +0000 http://wokkil.pair.com/hydragen/hydragenic.new/2003/10/29/brainbox/#comment-1674 A few thoughts: (1) "The future is already here" is the tech-fetish equivalent of "I'm having deja-vu all over again". Like nails on a chalkboard... (2) Long before the technology to maintain a disembodied brain in any capacity approaching cognition is released commercially, the issue of what human rights apply to said brain will have been addressed (though not necessarily appropriately), probably nullifying any rights conferred to shareholders. Otherwise, the door to slavery is opened anew, wrapped in the shroud of "progress". (3) This is stupid. A few thoughts:
(1) “The future is already here” is the tech-fetish equivalent of “I’m having deja-vu all over again”. Like nails on a chalkboard…
(2) Long before the technology to maintain a disembodied brain in any capacity approaching cognition is released commercially, the issue of what human rights apply to said brain will have been addressed (though not necessarily appropriately), probably nullifying any rights conferred to shareholders. Otherwise, the door to slavery is opened anew, wrapped in the shroud of “progress”.
(3) This is stupid.

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