{"id":1274,"date":"2006-07-14T22:18:19","date_gmt":"2006-07-14T22:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1274"},"modified":"2006-07-14T22:18:19","modified_gmt":"2006-07-14T22:18:19","slug":"like_a_hole_in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1274","title":{"rendered":"Like A Hole In The Head"},"content":{"rendered":"

A few people have sent me this link about yet another experiment involving a neural implant and a person with a disability<\/A>.  In this particular case, the experiment subject was able to manipulate a robotic arm with his brain impulses.  The article does point out a couple downsides of the experiment.  First, the chip wasn’t perfectly responsive one hundred percent of the time.  Second, the subject had a lot of hardware poking out of his skull to facilitate a cable connection to a computer.  As eager as I am to get one of these chips installed inside me so that I can begin my ascendancy to Supreme Commander of the legions of gimp cyborg revolutionaries, I think I’ll wait for the wireless version.  I already have a couple of orifices that aren’t factory-standard on this body and I don’t really desire another one.  And I don’t think women find exposed gray matter terribly sexy.<\/DIV><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A few people have sent me this link about yet another experiment involving a neural implant and a person with a disability.  In this particular case, the experiment subject was able to manipulate a robotic arm with his brain impulses.  The article does point out a couple downsides of the experiment.  First, the chip wasn’t […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-ky","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}