"Using RedTacton-enabled devices, music from an MP3 player in your pocket would pass through your clothing and shoot over your body to headphones in your ears. Instead of fiddling around with a cable to connect your digital camera to your computer, you could transfer pictures just by touching the PC while the camera is around your neck. And since data can pass from one body to another, you could also exchange electronic business cards by shaking hands, trade music files by dancing cheek to cheek, or swap phone numbers just by kissing."
Remember the "control panels" from the "alien autopsy"? If they're real -- alien or otherwise -- they could be more than simple touch-interface panels; they might be sophisticated computers in their own right, able to "converse" by swapping massive files through the user's skin.
Given current advances in neural prosthetics, it's not impossible to foresee a complimentary device grafted to the user's brain. Using a system architecture that exploits the nervous system, thoughts themselves might be compressed and transferred like common computer files.
I'm reminded of Dr. Robert Sarbacher's allusion that bodies taken from UFO crashes were artificial. Could he have been describing cybernetic beings specifically created to pilot UFOs? If so, the "control panels" might be a vital piece of the mystery. (According to the "cameraman" who viewed the alleged crash site, the beings had emerged from their wreck clutching these things -- implying they were much more than flight instruments.)
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on a related note 'wearable' computing has been going on at MIT for awhile now
http://www.media.mit.edu/wearables/
The whole concept looks like its being taken to the next step. The thing that scares me about the whole body network thing is if it catches on the next logical step would be, as you said mac, developing a 'system architecture that exploits the nervous system'. When that comes to fruition its only a matter of time before someone can hack your brain, see your thoughts, or maybe implant a virus from the comfort of their own home. Imagine a government agency eavesdropping on someone's thoughts, maybe yours, or stalkers being able to casually plan their evening by downloading your whole mental schedule, or someone who you've crossed implanting a schitzo-virus in you for revenge ... Maybe it could be taken to the point of hacking someone on the network and being able to see what they see? 'So that's what his wife looks naked'. The malicious possibilities really scare me.
And the next step is that one individual will be able to assume mental control over almost everyone. When a computer virus travels the world, incompatible programs and unplugging machines will stop it, but unplugging the human brain will not be much of an option, and while each brain might be unique, there might very well be enough similarities for a trojan virus to infect a vast majority. I really wonder if a healthy layer of tinfoil might distort such signals though.
*stocks up on tinfoil* ... you know, just in case.
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