On 20-2-2014 10:41, scott wrote:
>> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-26258971
>>
>> OK cool tech at work here ... lot's of engineering reasons why this is a
>> great idea, but for some reason I don't like it one bit!
>
> I wonder how they will make the screens look high quality when sat next
> to them, without requiring gigapixels of camera data and TB/s of data.
>
>> It seems that some of the early sci-fi writers got it right ... we're
>> headed of world that actually seeing something first hand is going the
>> way of the dodo. Instead we'll get some sensors view. Sure there are
>> /plenty/ of other examples, but this one just caught my eye.
>
> They recently got that monkey to control the limbs of another sedated
> monkey remotely, next you could connect the output of an eye in one
> person to the optic nerve of another, then after that there's nothing to
> stop a computer or camera being used to inject signals directly onto the
> optic nerve - no need for a screen ever again!

What makes you think they have not already done that?


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