07-27-2007, 10:50 PM
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I have a little inside knowledge, and from what i hear the internet is on the way out. its going to be replaced with more bio-oriented applications. So if youve put all your eggs in one basket, get out now before the new wave leaves you obsolete. keep this on the down low
| You don't have large outside idiocy but you're telling me that the bio-tech engineering is on the way in? So It's not going to be kept with less cs-oriented theorem. Because if I put none of my chicken in every basket, I need to get in later after the old wave welcome me anew. Spread this up everywhere! Quote:
Though the OP's post was apparently meant a little tongue-in-cheek, two trends have been converging in development really quickly at a few centers: CMU, MIT, Berkeley, CalTech, Stanford, and some other places in Japan and Switzerland: "jacking" devices into the neural networks of folks who can essentially develop the ability to control them through thought, and robotics-cum-artificial intelligence.
So it's not completely bio yet by any stretch, but bio-electronic/digital interfaces are being developed, and may be that much more robust when bio-based computers are developed by ClassicRockerDad's friend at MIT; the internet could then literally become part of someone's body (assuming the immune system doesn't reject it, tee hee) and computer science as we know it would become largely irrelevant or perhaps better to say greatly changed.
The big problem that's been run into with rough prototypes so far has been that a huge percentage of the undergrad/grad researchers that have volunteered to have computers-on-a-chip plugged right into their nervous systems have failed academically (and in one case outright died). No one's really sure exactly what they were "tapping" into on the internet, but all of these volunteers were men and they were often going blind, growing very thin, and spending a lot of time in the bathroom whence one could hear moaning.
If you meet one of these volunteers, best go with what CRD did after meeting the geek-girl.
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