The Pros and Cons of a Google Brain Implant


	The Pros and Cons of a Google Brain Implant

Djiezes

2-23-2008 10:50 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/2b33bc4c-60b0-4b6a-81b2-c36750df9e75/51CE7EE5-5E73-452C-B11A-0E9A1D68181D/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://io9.com/359932/the-pros-and-cons-of-a-google-brain-implant" href="http://io9.com/359932/the-pros-and-cons-of-a-google-brain-implant" style="font-size: 11px;">io9.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://io9.com/359932/the-pros-and-cons-of-a-google-brain-implant"><H2>
		<A class="top" href="http://io9.com/359932/the-pros-and-cons-of-a-google-brain-implant"><LAYER name="972c7e4c4433523325e31db194de6289" class="DIIGO-POWER" mode="2" owner="djiezes" diigo-title="djiezes's private highlight.(provided by Diigo)" id="972c7e4c4433523325e31db194de6289" __old__title="" title="">The Pros and Cons of a Google Brain Implant</LAYER></A>
	</H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://io9.com/359932/the-pros-and-cons-of-a-google-brain-implant"><LAYER name="b560bfcf38952bc8b82363aa6fe8496c" class="DIIGO-POWER" mode="2" owner="djiezes" diigo-title="djiezes's private highlight.(provided by Diigo)" id="b560bfcf38952bc8b82363aa6fe8496c">What exactly would be the plusses and minuses of being able to google information instantaneously in your head</LAYER></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://io9.com/359932/the-pros-and-cons-of-a-google-brain-implant"><P><LAYER name="4a1e8ee41ed74cd06883bc7c8fe50438" class="DIIGO-POWER" mode="2" owner="djiezes" diigo-title="djiezes's private highlight.(provided by Diigo)">Ability to "remember" many details about a person or issue in the middle of a conversation, so that you can marshal facts quickly and check the accuracy of what other people are saying.</LAYER></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://io9.com/359932/the-pros-and-cons-of-a-google-brain-implant"><P><LAYER name="4a1e8ee41ed74cd06883bc7c8fe50438" class="DIIGO-POWER" mode="2" owner="djiezes" diigo-title="djiezes's private highlight.(provided by Diigo)">The person you're talking to could much more easily pretend to be somebody they are not by googling information and feigning expertise.</LAYER></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://io9.com/359932/the-pros-and-cons-of-a-google-brain-implant"><LAYER name="357654dfe4ff4495cdefc2112a82a6f9" class="DIIGO-POWER" mode="2" owner="djiezes" diigo-title="djiezes's private highlight.(provided by Diigo)">You will never get lost</LAYER></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://io9.com/359932/the-pros-and-cons-of-a-google-brain-implant"><LAYER name="4ed174a71b400e52580440523ee603b6" class="DIIGO-POWER" mode="2" owner="djiezes" diigo-title="djiezes's private highlight.(provided by Diigo)" id="4ed174a71b400e52580440523ee603b6">You'll also get the latest news headlines</LAYER></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://io9.com/359932/the-pros-and-cons-of-a-google-brain-implant"><LAYER name="6c5c21e9d9569266c201ef08d5e6848e" class="DIIGO-POWER" mode="2" owner="djiezes" diigo-title="djiezes's private highlight.(provided by Diigo)">You'll spend so much time in your head reading google news and watching YouTube that you'll zone out during conversations</LAYER></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://io9.com/359932/the-pros-and-cons-of-a-google-brain-implant"><LAYER name="dcc82d4e6b8a61f667b260eadacfb7c1" class="DIIGO-POWER" mode="2" owner="djiezes" diigo-title="djiezes's private highlight.(provided by Diigo)">Instant access to infinite data storage allows you to quickly store your every interesting thought, and search through them instantly.</LAYER></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://io9.com/359932/the-pros-and-cons-of-a-google-brain-implant"><LAYER name="1f82e3590c7203125b317ddcee2ba0a3" class="DIIGO-POWER" mode="2" owner="djiezes" diigo-title="djiezes's private highlight.(provided by Diigo)">Over reliance on "offloaded" memory means people make less of an effort to remember</LAYER></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://io9.com/359932/the-pros-and-cons-of-a-google-brain-implant"><LAYER name="76de0c028e5510137a506fa0cc0315c4" class="DIIGO-POWER" mode="2" owner="djiezes" diigo-title="djiezes's private highlight.(provided by Diigo)" id="76de0c028e5510137a506fa0cc0315c4">CON: Google ads are constantly running in your head, perhaps designed to respond to thought patterns.</LAYER></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/51CE7EE5-5E73-452C-B11A-0E9A1D68181D/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>