Comments on: Brainbox http://hydragenic.com/2003/10/29/brainbox/ ... made me stronger Wed, 23 Nov 2011 14:50:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Daniel 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.

]]> By: frizzyLogic http://hydragenic.com/2003/10/29/brainbox/comment-page-1/#comment-1675 frizzyLogic Wed, 29 Oct 2003 09:25:25 +0000 http://wokkil.pair.com/hydragen/hydragenic.new/2003/10/29/brainbox/#comment-1675 <strong>Mind-money dichotomy</strong> Via Stuart Hydragenic: Jonathon Keats, BBC NEWS | UK | Magazine | The man who sold his brain" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/3217423.stm">the man who sold his brain, is offering futures contracts on his brain, in bundles of one milli... Mind-money dichotomy

Via Stuart Hydragenic: Jonathon Keats, BBC NEWS | UK | Magazine | The man who sold his brain” href=”http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/3217423.stm”>the man who sold his brain, is offering futures contracts on his brain, in bundles of one milli…

]]> By: qB http://hydragenic.com/2003/10/29/brainbox/comment-page-1/#comment-1673 qB Wed, 29 Oct 2003 08:35:39 +0000 http://wokkil.pair.com/hydragen/hydragenic.new/2003/10/29/brainbox/#comment-1673 Safari won't let me read more than about five words of your title... "absolutely no time right now..." Intriguing, but frustrating. Great story... I'm going to pinch the link, if you don't mind. I think he's a direct descendant... I wonder what J Keats would make of it. Safari won’t let me read more than about five words of your title… “absolutely no time right now…”
Intriguing, but frustrating.
Great story… I’m going to pinch the link, if you don’t mind.
I think he’s a direct descendant… I wonder what J Keats would make of it.

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