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...idea here is similar to what compelled Viacom to buy CBS and AOL to merge with Time Warner: joining content with distribution. In some sense, it is technology--or fear of technological change--that is driving these partnerships. Who knows in the high-speed, always-on, wireless world what is more valuable: content or distribution, programming or cable, music or the means to get the tunes to the listener...
...game or reality-TV show. AOLTV also lets you surf the Net and read e-mail. Best of all, you don't need a computer. Instead, you hook a VCR-like box up to your TV and run a phone cord from the box to the nearest jack. A wireless keyboard lets you lounge as you click...
...should be available for brain scanning. Nanobots are robots that are the size of human blood cells or even smaller (see "Will Tiny Robots Build Diamonds One Atom at a Time?"). Billions of them could travel through every brain capillary and scan neural details up close. Using high-speed wireless connections, the nanobots would communicate with one another and with other computers that are compiling the brain-scan database...
...design. Although we do add patterns of interneuronal connections and neurotransmitter concentrations as a normal part of the learning process, the current overall capacity of the human brain is highly constrained, restricted to a mere 100 trillion connections. Since the nanobots will be communicating with one another over a wireless local area network, they can create any set of neural connections, break existing connections (by suppressing neural firing) and create new hybrid (i.e., combined biological and nonbiological) networks, as well as add powerful new forms of nonbiological intelligence. Brain implants based on distributed intelligent nanobots will massively expand our memory...
...serve as an appliance-control remote, a digital wallet, a cell phone, an identity badge, an e-mail station, a digital book, a pager and perhaps even a digital camera. There is sure to be a catchy name for this all-purpose Internet-enabled thingy, perhaps Wireless Internet Digital Gadget for Electronic Transactions, or WIDGET...