Ah-ha! Not just a euro-pop group!
Friday, July 23, 2004
Thanks to hanging out with Daryl, i finally have a flash of genius - uploading expendable media directly into your brain!
Actually, i just stole his flash of genius. :( booooo. But here i go, explaining it anyway. So, i know that we’ve all watched the matrix, right? So why don’t we make our brains the repository to for all kinds of media? Right now our media storage is limited by the physical media on which it is placed - i.e. CDs, DVDs, hard drives, etc. If our brains are nearly half as expansive as we think they are, they would be the perfect receptical for expendable media like movies, music and the like.
You would simply go to a place for an upload or do it via the web. You would get an time-limited password that would expire after a couple of days. You would then be able to view the media from within your own mind!
Of course there was also the uploading of skills and trades. One of the minor arguments for that is that people enjoy the journey involved with learning a skill, something you can’t achieve by just uploading information. BUT what if you were to program emotion uploads? You could build in the *feeling* of having worked hard and especially the “ah-ha” moment when you understood the process. So at the end of the upload, instead of a sound that goes “ping!” you get an “ah-ha” feeling of accomplishment that goes along with learning. oooh.