This entry was posted
on Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008 at 11:38 am and is filed under MSG™, My Stuff.
You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.
You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.
Not really. It has some of the stuff from that in there, but it’s about something different. It uses similar bogus SF elements to make different points.
Not so sure about bogus. Was reading about brain circuitry recently in Scientific American. “Miniature Neural Interface Microdrives.” Circuit boards covered with brain cells so the body won’t reject them, controlled by thought alone.
It’s interesting to contemplate the World on MNIMs. This morning I was thinking about Alis, and about all the other applications awaiting a good business model — why not treatment for sexual deviants? Possible the world’s most uniformly despised group — particularly those that prey on children — therefore perfect for compulsory experimentation. Would only take a clever scientist figuring out how to override the undesirable behavoir via the implant’s programming — a Personal V Chip, if you will. Who would object? Not even the subjects themselves, if given the choice between the experiment and a life in a mental facility. Supposing that to be a success, let’s move on to less hated criminal groups … then perhaps on to bullies. And now we proceed to the seemingly voluntarily unappetizing … certainly the overweights’ and the alcoholics’ behavoir could use some modification, and they perhaps would welcome the help. And how about those strange people in fringe political groups, always making trouble. Certainly they’d be more content if they “fit in” much better. Etcetera, etcetera, and then .. who is left?
December 2nd, 2008 at 5:25 pm
“Work 24/7 and still have time for yourself.” Brilliant. This could be an Advertisement for Accountancy.
December 2nd, 2008 at 10:56 pm
hey wait, is this the game of that bite sized serial of yours?
December 3rd, 2008 at 9:16 am
Not really. It has some of the stuff from that in there, but it’s about something different. It uses similar bogus SF elements to make different points.
December 4th, 2008 at 8:25 am
Not so sure about bogus. Was reading about brain circuitry recently in Scientific American. “Miniature Neural Interface Microdrives.” Circuit boards covered with brain cells so the body won’t reject them, controlled by thought alone.
December 4th, 2008 at 9:14 am
Well, not that bogus. But they’re a means to an end more than the point of the thing.
December 5th, 2008 at 3:33 am
It’s interesting to contemplate the World on MNIMs. This morning I was thinking about Alis, and about all the other applications awaiting a good business model — why not treatment for sexual deviants? Possible the world’s most uniformly despised group — particularly those that prey on children — therefore perfect for compulsory experimentation. Would only take a clever scientist figuring out how to override the undesirable behavoir via the implant’s programming — a Personal V Chip, if you will. Who would object? Not even the subjects themselves, if given the choice between the experiment and a life in a mental facility. Supposing that to be a success, let’s move on to less hated criminal groups … then perhaps on to bullies. And now we proceed to the seemingly voluntarily unappetizing … certainly the overweights’ and the alcoholics’ behavoir could use some modification, and they perhaps would welcome the help. And how about those strange people in fringe political groups, always making trouble. Certainly they’d be more content if they “fit in” much better. Etcetera, etcetera, and then .. who is left?
December 8th, 2008 at 12:39 pm
See, I think that if the brands get it, they’ll just turn us one by one into people who buy Hello! magazine and Pussycat Dolls CDs.
I bet when BEKI80 here wakes up, she gets targeted ads beamed into her brain.
December 9th, 2008 at 11:08 pm
Target ads beamed directly to the brain. Huh. I’m very glad you use your powers for the good.