A chip implant in your brain by Intel
The “Intel Inside” tag has marked the desktop PCs (74% acc. Q4 2008) since the 1990s. In 2020, Intel expects to stample “Intel Inside” on our foreheads.
According to PhysOrg, Computer chip maker Intel wants to implant a brain-sensing chip directly into the brains of its customers to allow them to operate computers and other devices without moving a muscle.
Research projects to connect animal brains to robots have been carried out for many years. Rats and monkeys have already been able to control robots with brain signals. It was a matter of time before some large company announces a product that will allow human brain to communicate with electronic devices around them. Who’s better than the world leader in silicon innovation and world’s largest semiconductor chip maker to take that challenge?
While Cyberdine Corporation are working on the robotics, Intel wants to implant a chip in your brain to create a telepathy between you and your devices. I don’t like The Terminator movies, but that looks pretty much the result of these innovations.
The chip is said to sense brain activity using technology based on fMRI (Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging). However these chips are not yet available, but Intel researchers think they’re close.
Intel believes that people are willing to get a chip implant in their brain to operate computers, mobile phones and TVs without keyboard, mouse or remote control. This sounds very interesting but is it worth a brain surgery?!
Furthermore, let’s say they figure out a way to avoid implant and just glue the chip behind your ear, the real danger is the amount of information that would be exposed to Intel. They will know about every single thought that would cross your mind !
In other words, you will be able to control your devices, but they will be able to control you. If the chip was external, you would take it off anytime you want, but being an implant, it is not clear how Intel research scientists have thought about the upgrades or the maintenance of these chips.
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