So, here’s the thing. I need a bad ass cyber suit of some kind. It’s time we got on this. I mean come on, we’ve got monkeys doing crazy shit with robotics already. Can’t Ray Kurzweil put something together for me?
Monkey Arms that KILL
You heard me. I said giant robotic smashing machines that get directly hardwired to monkey brains. This is no joke, kids. This is real science. This is how you change the world (and it has nothing to do with Guy Kawasaki).
My assumption was that they hacked off the little monkey arms first — you know, in order to test. However, thankfully you can see their cute hands down in those tubes. Whew.
Have you ever been to Epcot and played with the robotic arms inside the Innoventions building? Basically you control the big arms that play various musical instruments from a touch screen. It’s really boring but it was built 10 years ago so give it a break.
When is it time to hook some monkeys up to those bad boys?
Think of how much fun it would be to walk up and plug them into your brain and duel your friend on the next machine over. Where is that? That’s the kind of power I need for my Cyber Monkey Suit. Except instead of drumsticks, mine will have guns on the ends. Obviously.
Exoawesome
Either way, arm hacking is not a step I want to go through. No, I’m talking more like an Iron Man suit. I suppose you could call it a Powered Exoskeleton. Something fast that I can jump into and kick some ass or rob a bank with.
Yeah that’s right, I said rob a bank. I’m no superhero.
Speaking of Iron Man’s suit, while looking great as far as built (much better than that freaking Power Armor in Fallout), it lacks in the bad ass paint job department. Did we have to go with red and gold? I know it’s for the good of the series and everything but if it were my suit and be rocking some kind of dark stealthy color. Like carbon fiber (before you flood me with comments, I don’t mean made out of carbon fiber, I mean carbon fiber looking — as in silver and black).
Oh, and by the way, where are my damn flying cars you promised me in Back to the Future II?
3 Responses to “Ready My Cyber Monkey Suit”rss
Steve, on May 29th, 2008, said:
All joking apart, that has a fantastic potential for replacement limbs. Maybe not in my lifetime but a real breakthrough nonetheless.
Mark Albright, on June 2nd, 2008, said:
Re: Flying car from Back to the Future II - that was into 2015 so Detroit (or Tokyo) has a couple left to develop them ;-)
Tierra, on June 17th, 2008, said:
I read Fantastic Voyage, The Age of Spiritual Machines and The Singularity is Near, and they changed my life. I even found some of his lectures on Itunes and I find myself impatiently awaiting his next book.
Recently read another incredible book that I can’t recommend highly enough, especially to all of you who also love Ray Kurzweil’s work. The book is “”My Stroke of Insight”" by Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor. I had heard Dr Taylor’s talk on the TED dot com site and I have to say, it changed my world. It’s spreading virally all over the internet and the book is now a NYTimes Bestseller, so I’m not the only one, but it is the most amazing talk, and the most impactful book I’ve read in years. (Dr T also was named to Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People and Oprah had her on her Soul Series last month and I hear they’re making a movie about her story so you may already have heard of her)
If you haven’t heard Dr Taylor’s TEDTalk, that’s an absolute must. The book is more and deeper and better, but start with the video (it’s 18 minutes). Basically, her story is that she was a 37 yr old Harvard brain scientist who had a massive stroke in the left hemisphere of her brain. Because of her knowledge of how the brain works, and thanks to her amazingly loving and kind mother, she eventually fully recovered (and that part of the book detailing how she did it is inspirational).
There’s a lot of learning and magic in the book, but the reason I so highly recommend My Stroke of Insight to this discussion, is because we have powerfully intelligent left brains that are rational, logical, sequential and grounded in detail and time, and then we have our kinesthetic right brains, where we experience intuition and peace and euphoria. Now that Kurzweil has got us taking all those vitamins and living our best “”Fantastic Voyage”" , the absolute necessity is that we read My Stroke of Insight and learn from Dr Taylor how to achieve balance between our right and left brains. Enjoy!
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