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From: mark <whitroth at 5-cent.us>
Subject: [WSFA] Welcome to the Real World of cyberpunk
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2016 08:06:37 -0500
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Superpowerful rich corporations, out of control... and now,

Excerpt:
The US government is researching technology that it hopes will turn soldiers
into cyborgs, allowing them to connect directly to computers.

The US military\342\200\231s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa) has
unveiled a research programme called Neural Engineering System Design (NESD)
which aims to develop an implantable neural interface, connecting humans
directly to computers.

Human-computer interfaces are not a new research topic, but most have been
hampered by slow, limited control, providing movement of robotic prosthetics
or allowing humans to input text or similar into a computer by concentrating
on certain feelings or thoughts of motions.

Phillip Alvelda, NESD manager for Darpa, said: \342\200\234Today\342\200\231s best brain-computer
interface systems are like two supercomputers trying to talk to each other
using an old 300-baud modem. Imagine what will become possible when we upgrade
our tools to really open the channel between the human brain and modern
electronics.\342\200\235
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<http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jan/20/us-military-cyborg-connecting-humans-computers>

            mark "I'll take my jack behind my ear, please"