There is no doubt that brain-computer interfaces will arrive – because they’re already here, in simple forms, and we’ll have movie-style mind links within a decade at most.  Which makes the movie idea of mind-hacking (as in Ghost In The Shell ) an extremely serious problem.  Never mind how you keep all your most important files up there (little things like “me. exe “) – if it gets damaged, unless you’re a Buddhist there’s no Ctrl -Alt-Delete. The [...]

There is no doubt that brain-computer interfaces will arrive – because they’re already here, in simple forms, and we’ll have movie-style mind links within a decade at most.  Which makes the movie idea of mind-hacking (as in Ghost In The Shell ) an extremely serious problem.  Never mind how you keep all your most important files up there (little things like “me. exe “) – if it gets damaged, unless you’re a Buddhist there’s no Ctrl -Alt-Delete. See [...]