Comments on: Cheap Brain Implants! (But Read the Fine Print in your EULA…) http://www.gordsellar.com/2007/10/10/cheap-brain-implants-but-read-the-fine-print-in-your-eula/ Fri, 10 Sep 2010 08:51:03 +0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: gordsellar http://www.gordsellar.com/2007/10/10/cheap-brain-implants-but-read-the-fine-print-in-your-eula/comment-page-1/#comment-25616 gordsellar Wed, 10 Oct 2007 05:44:07 +0000 http://www.gordsellar.com/2007/10/10/cheap-brain-implants-but-read-the-fine-print-in-your-eula/#comment-25616 By the way -- I'm suspicious of the idea that yougn people will have fewer coping skills for information overload, etc. I think they'll have more -- they'll be growing up as natives in that country that is still a little foreign to us. Maybe they'll be even better at blocking out ads, or insisting that they become entertainment, or something. Maybe not, though. I suspect it depends only a little on how we "educate" them, and a lot on how much we instill values of being critical of things. (Since education rarely involves teaching critical thinking in a direct way, I consider them relatively separate.) By the way — I’m suspicious of the idea that yougn people will have fewer coping skills for information overload, etc. I think they’ll have more — they’ll be growing up as natives in that country that is still a little foreign to us. Maybe they’ll be even better at blocking out ads, or insisting that they become entertainment, or something. Maybe not, though. I suspect it depends only a little on how we “educate” them, and a lot on how much we instill values of being critical of things. (Since education rarely involves teaching critical thinking in a direct way, I consider them relatively separate.)

]]> By: gordsellar http://www.gordsellar.com/2007/10/10/cheap-brain-implants-but-read-the-fine-print-in-your-eula/comment-page-1/#comment-25615 gordsellar Wed, 10 Oct 2007 05:41:46 +0000 http://www.gordsellar.com/2007/10/10/cheap-brain-implants-but-read-the-fine-print-in-your-eula/#comment-25615 Gack! A story by PKD that I don't know! And from the summary I read, it's VERY relevant to this idea. Thanks! (Now to try hunt it down.) Yeah, the brain-implants/brain-spam thing surely isn't a new idea, and I think I even saw Stross riff on it directly. I'm hoping the details -- the quasi-legality of EULAs, advertising, Pavlovian effects (you'll never guess what he "hallucinates" when he drinks a Coke -- or, no, you probably can guess) all come together to sketch this in a scary/funny way. Thanks, Bulgasari! Gack! A story by PKD that I don’t know! And from the summary I read, it’s VERY relevant to this idea. Thanks! (Now to try hunt it down.)

Yeah, the brain-implants/brain-spam thing surely isn’t a new idea, and I think I even saw Stross riff on it directly. I’m hoping the details — the quasi-legality of EULAs, advertising, Pavlovian effects (you’ll never guess what he “hallucinates” when he drinks a Coke — or, no, you probably can guess) all come together to sketch this in a scary/funny way.

Thanks, Bulgasari!

]]> By: Bulgasari http://www.gordsellar.com/2007/10/10/cheap-brain-implants-but-read-the-fine-print-in-your-eula/comment-page-1/#comment-25547 Bulgasari Tue, 09 Oct 2007 18:21:42 +0000 http://www.gordsellar.com/2007/10/10/cheap-brain-implants-but-read-the-fine-print-in-your-eula/#comment-25547 Nice beginning. It makes me think of a rather perverse, corporate takeover of some of the imagery in Philip K. Dick's "Electric Ant," mixed, at least visually, with an episode of Cowboy Bebop where they're bombarded with 3d ads). But those didn't have the perversity to have a sex partner morph into a coke bottle - I really like that. As you noted in your previous post, I also pay little attention to internet ads (don't most people? How the hell do they make money? Or so I think before recalling a conversation with a friend who said he's happy we were born in a generation that grew up with books, pre-internet, which may (or may not) have given us skills that people born after 1985 may not have - but I digress)- so the outcome of the brain implants carries with it the possiblility of both horror and comedy. It looks like something you could have a lot of fun with; I look forward to reading more... Nice beginning. It makes me think of a rather perverse, corporate takeover of some of the imagery in Philip K. Dick’s “Electric Ant,” mixed, at least visually, with an episode of Cowboy Bebop where they’re bombarded with 3d ads). But those didn’t have the perversity to have a sex partner morph into a coke bottle – I really like that. As you noted in your previous post, I also pay little attention to internet ads (don’t most people? How the hell do they make money? Or so I think before recalling a conversation with a friend who said he’s happy we were born in a generation that grew up with books, pre-internet, which may (or may not) have given us skills that people born after 1985 may not have – but I digress)- so the outcome of the brain implants carries with it the possiblility of both horror and comedy. It looks like something you could have a lot of fun with; I look forward to reading more…

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