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A vision for the future This is one of nearly a thousand foresight statements shared by people from around the world. To return to the Voices of the People home page, click here. To do a refined search of the Voices of the People statements, click here. To submit your ideas to this online archive, look to the upper right corner of this page, click on "Share Your Prediction" and fill in the pop-up form. Name: David From: Utah Bio: sociologist Area of Expertise: Advocate/Voice of the People Topic: Getting, Sharing Information Headline: Tree of Knowledge Nutshell: Neural implants will guide us to know knowledge via the internet just as the written word guided knowledge in the past. Vision:
Given nanotechnology and the availability for neural implants present today - such as optical cameras for the blind - the implanting of assistance chips in the neural pathways will be the next long-term step. Just as a computer can store data for retrieval, so will the chips store data appropriately for our retrieval.
Date Submitted: 11/10/2004 |
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