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- From: U55533%uicvm.uic.edu@OHSTVMA.ACS.OHIO-STATE.EDU (William H Temps III)
- Newsgroups: sci.virtual-worlds
- Subject: Re: SCI: Direct Neural-Electronic Interfacing
- Message-ID: <1992Nov24.051348.5004@u.washington.edu>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 21:21:14 GMT
- References: <1992Nov12.021544.22672@u.washington.edu>
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- In article <1992Nov16.030501.21532@u.washington.edu>,
- tolman@asylum.cs.utah.edu (Kenneth Tolman) says:
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- >>****** DIRECT NEURAL - ELECTRONIC INTERFACING *************
- >
- >>Can someone tell me if there's any work being done at the moment on direct
- >>hardware - wetware interfacing techniques?
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- Cochlear implants are being used to provide some hearing for the deaf,
- though they're still rather crude.
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- > I predict that full direct neural immersion will not be available for
- >200 years,
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- I wouldn't dare make any predictions that far into the future ...
- think of what's happened in the past 200 years ... and the pace of
- technology is accelerating. Especially with applications like this,
- that have clear military applications (control of aircraft, for
- example).
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