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Skriven 2007-05-09 20:37:00 av Grock Kcorg (5391.windows)
Ärende: Kiss Your Keyboard goodby
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The demo video is pretty cool. If I could get rid of the keyboard hell yes! Its
a great device but nothing compared to the mouse. It is the limiting part of
the computer interface to the human. I think how a child can use a mouse, but
it takes them so much longer to understand the keyboard. Although I perfer the
keyboard over the mouse because of the speed I can do things with it. combo
keys what not, but devices like the mouse are dope. Interfacing to us in better
way, cool with me as long as I can put a firewall up so my thoughts are my own
and governement can hang me for them as if I wrote them because they are
imprinted in my mind accessible and accountable under stuff like the sedition
act. 

-=> George Vandervort wrote to All <=-

 GV> @MSGID: <44C5B367.5356.windows@x-bit.org>
 GV> Hello All!


 GV> === Cut ===

 GV> Would you jack your Brain into the InterNet?

 GV> We've all seen the sci-fi movies where futuristic computer users are
 GV> able to connect their brains directly to the network, usually via nice
 GV> little ports implanted in their necks. No need for a keyboard or mouse
 GV> to input data, no need for a monitor to view the system's output. Of
 GV> course, in those movies, something very bad usually ends up happening
 GV> to our plugged-in hero. It's annoying and expensive when a power surge
 GV> blows your monitor but it beats the heck out of having the same thing
 GV> happen to your grey matter.

 GV> It makes for a cool storyline - but are we getting close to seeing it
 GV> turn into reality? This article on CNNMoney.com (hardly a haven for
 GV> off-the-wall technology predictions) describes how it's already
 GV> happening: http://www.wxpnews.com/LOIW49/060725-Plugged

 GV> Short version: A quadriplegic man has learned to control his computer
 GV> using just his brainwaves, which are translated by a tiny implant that
 GV> reads the electrical impulses from his brain. What are the
 GV> ramifications for the rest of us?

 GV> Some scientists are predicting that one day, interfacing with your
 GV> computer via a keyboard will be just as obsolete as throwing binary
 GV> switches or punching paper tape to input data is today. And of course,
 GV> networking is already all about communicating and collaborating with
 GV> others. We use the network to send email or instant messages. In the
 GV> future, when we're all plugged in, will we enjoy a technology-assisted
 GV> form of telepathy, where we only have to think our message to have it
 GV> delivered directly to the recipient's brain?

 GV> I have to admit that, much as I generally love to be on the cutting
 GV> edge of new technology, I'm more frightened than excited by the
 GV> prospect. First of all, imagine the security issues that would arise
 GV> with this scenario. I feel violated enough if my computer's hard drive
 GV> gets hacked; I don't think I want to deal with attackers whose viruses
 GV> install a "back door" to my cerebral cortex. And the thought of all
 GV> that brain spam cluttering up my thought processes makes me shudder.

 GV> It just so happens that I really like my keyboard. As a writer, I've
 GV> often said I tend to "think with my fingers" - that is, I can compose
 GV> better material, more quickly, typing on a keyboard than I can without
 GV> it. That's why I've never much liked any of the voice transcription
 GV> software I've tried. Even if it were completely accurate, I just don't
 GV> feel as natural speaking my thoughts as typing them. Of course, it
 GV> helps that I can touch type at around 90 wpm. I recognize that some
 GV> folks probably feel just the opposite, and others have no real choice
 GV> because they're physically unable to operate a keyboard. But I think
 GV> I'll be keeping my old input methods for the foreseeable future.

 GV> === Cut ===



 GV> Regards,
 GV> George Vandervort
 GV> InterNet EMail: georgev@austin.rr.com

 GV> 'Using yesterday's software to create tomorrow's problems today'

 GV> ... the Beatles said it best, Obla-Dee, Obla-Daa, Life Goes On...
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 GV> ========================================================================
 GV> =====

 GV> Hello All!



 GV> Regards,
 GV> George Vandervort

 GV> 'Using yesterday's software to create tomorrow's problems today'

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