I was looking through my email and I noticed that I had somehow overlooked an email from the MIT Venture Forum Life Sciences SIG. The meeting tomorrow at the Stata Center announced is for tomorrow to discuss a new company that has a working platform for directly implanting a bidirectional chip into people's brains.

"Cyberkinetics’ technology
platform, called BrainGate™ System, may allow breakthrough applications which
leverage the translation of thought into direct computer control."

See the video...

I know many people may be alarmed about the ethical consequences of it but I am interested in getting some extra chips in my brain. I'd like a chip that allows me to speak a variety of asian languages, and to be able to go to the Internet inside my head to get answers to questions like "Was Jennifer Connelly really the young love interest in the movie Once Upon a Time in America?" Imagine the IMDB brain RSS feed. Google better get on the ball and start making some indexing tools for my brain too. I can never find anything useful in there. Other people on the Internet might want to find my first kiss, my thoughts on how to solve the middle east crisis. Or someone might want to check my blog while they are bicycling to work. We'll need chat rooms too and I am sure the porn industry is already looking into making this stuff work. They must have some beta versions of the implant. They pioneer everything. Those newsgator folks should work on sorting out how to drop the news into the right neuron. Microsoft and Yahoo! and the networks should get in on this too. Someone has to control the braintop. The OS in the video looks pretty dull so far, just moving pixels around.