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Some people, granted only a few, have decided that implanting themselves with special computer chips is worth it. A couple had themselves implanted with a chip in their hand. With this chip implanted, they can walk up to their door, their car or any other device that needs a password and the chip broadcasts it to the device. For example their house door unlocks for them as does their car door. The chips themselves cost only about $2.00, yes you heard me right. They are what is known as RFID chips.
RFID chips are Radio Frequency Identification Chips. These chips have been in use for awhile and are used to identify livestock. There is a down side to this however. If someone gets close enough to read your signal, they will know all your codes and don't expect you expensive car and home possessions to last very long.
A reader for this chip can be bought from Phidgets Inc in Canada for only $65.00. Computer chips are also being used to repair damage caused by stroke or spinal cord injury. When they are implanted, they create new connections to the brain and the damaged muscles, allowing the patient to be fully functional again. No one can object to this use of chips. But it is the next use of chips that has some people really worried.
It is said that schools will become a thing of the past. How can this be? The answer is quite simple. If a computer chip could be inserted into your brain that contained all the knowledge that you would ever need, what advantage would going to school have? This is what scientists are trying to develop now and it has many people in this world upset. Why would they be upset you wonder? Here is the crux of the matter.
It is felt that not everyone can be doctors, lawyers, scientists and engineers, so who will get what chip. Will the rich and influential get the good chips while the rest of us get the chips that have info on how to make burgers? I think you see the problem now.
This could be the end of being able to make a conscious decision on what you want to be. Some say that the system will be fair, to those scientists I say that I remember a famous state politician who needed a heart transplant. There was a list in his state of hundreds of people ahead of him. They put him in the number one position on the list and he received the next heart. Some may have lost their lives because of this. Was it fair? This is what we can expect if these "intelligence chips" become a reality.
Brain implants have already been conducted that enable people to control computers with their brains alone. Some paralyzed people have had these transplants and are now capable of computer control. One famous doctor from Atlanta stated that "If you can run a computer you can talk to the world." There is certainly no truer statement. One of his patients is paralyzed from a stroke and needs a ventilator and is not capable of speech.
He was implanted and can now use his computer to talk for him. He doesn't have access to the complete English language, but can command the computer to point and activate different icons that contain phrases, still this is much better than nothing. He can also send email, turn lights on and off and interact in a limited way with his environment.
Scientists, in 2004, announced the creation of a device that can connect to individual neurons. It is called a brain gate device. Who knows where this device will lead? It will certainly be a great help in installing certain types of computer chips in the human brain, because it allows for precise wiring. It is beginning to look like we won't recognize a human in a couple of hundred years from now. Anyone that has watched Star Trek The Next Generation is familiar with the Borg. They were a race of enhanced humans. We will all become Borgs in the future. It is certainly beginning to look like that. Oh yeah, the Borg were all under the power of a collective brain
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