Progressive Technology

Yeah, some similar thoughts have occured to me, I think one of the next phases of discovery will be 'hooking' the brain up directly to technology, computers etc. As with any advancement there will be good and bad consequences.
I don't condone the use of psychedelic drugs because they are very dangerous substances, but I think that people who got to try the really pure LSD had a somewhat indecipherable glimpse of some possible futures in some form or another.

Edited by Easy Money - July 20 2008 at 14:02

You would get wonderful little subliminal messages like "buy Coca-Cola!" .....

Think: all of the erosion that TV has caused in the past 80 years or so, influencing the minds of millions of consumers for the purpose of profit. It's bad enough already that they're in everybody's house, it would be devastating if entertainment technology became part of the human body.

If I ever see this come up in my lifetime, I would gladly call the users 'morons', 'tools', 'consumer whores', etc. straight to their face.

Absolutely, and it will become widely popular. Perhaps not the implantations, but the electroted attached to your brain, probably with a combination of real audio (a mixage of two or more inputs to the brain for more advanced expereince) and, let's say, a 3D video (VR).

That's just a step forward. Another step forward will also be:

The level our musical instruments/studio equipment/computers are on right now it's nowhere near perfect. I can imagine an audio software, doing instant analysis of an audio sample that will break it down into layers of bass, drums, gutars, vocals, even background noise, automatically transcribing sheet music and writing text of lyrics sung.

Okay, that's worthy and useful. However, slightly off topic, there's another thing that I'm afraid of:


Programming languages will develope to the stage we would not need to use Visual Basic, just talk to the computer in our native language giving instrucions.

Now imagine instructions like:

"compose me an uptempo progressive symph rock song, with lush keyboards and female vocals. Use Tarkus.wav as an example of dynamics and any file from Renaissance folder as a reference for a vocal timbre."

Keep in mind that self-composing software already exists, although it's quite primitive at this stage.

Or even worse: a scanner scan your brain waves, your thoughts, likings and preferences, computer analyses it - and composes an ultimate song for you, that you will love to death because you simply can not resist the addiction of something that fits your personality so strongly. All your belowed ELP, Genesis and Dream Theater tunes down the drain. I guess, after a fast boom of "personalized hits" there will be an overload of human society, causing a new musical movement called "intentionally unpleasing music". However, if we reach that stage, I guess those device will be used as a political and economica weapons of manipulations, a worst possible Orwellian scenario.

Technology will advance in ways unimagineable and humans will embrace those advancements. I can remember when a transistor was as big as a rubber on the end of a pencil- now they fit 3 million into waffers as big as your thumb nail. The type of enhancements you are talking of will not happen with transistor technology, but who knows what is around the corner- for the betterment or detrement of we of mortal flesh.

OzzProg wrote: It would be like music is playing inside your head, giving a phenomenal LSD like feeling, while at the same time, the changes in moods of the music, could change what you are actually feeling in your body.

You do realize that if someone invents something like that it won't stay legal for very long?

I'm thinking what would be more interesting than technology to put stuff in my head would be something to take stuff out like record my dreams.

Edited by Slartibartfast - July 22 2008 at 03:50