http://www.eetimes.com/story/OEG20040205S0013
Article reporting on research at the Sandia Laboratories based on neural networking, which will provide real-time advice to soldiers and government workers in the form of a digital mentor. Now this is a genuine advance in man-machine interfaces, with beneficial potentials at which we can currently only barely guess.
And of course it is being developed for soldiers and government workers [in the latter case, "some pigs are more equal than others" applies in full force]. This raises a plethora of questions, including disadvangtaging of governed against governors if the former do not have access to a digital buddy [one would think the commercial value of deploying such software widely through organizations would ensure its rapid dispersal, reducing such concerns].
Another, much more serious question is the degree to which cognitive filters are imposed on us without us realizing it, or being able to make any effective critique of the assumptions on which such filters are based. Nor does this exhaust the range of potential questions.
Again, this is something which has been previewed in science fiction, which could be a good 'conceptual playground' allowing us to think about the implications of this research in more scale and detail.
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