How long before we use the human Brain for a hard drive?

The brain stores data in a lossy and generalised manner, completely useless for computers. We may end up with biological drives though (like we are developing OLED's).
 
LordSplodge said:
Source? Direct cerebral to computer interface?
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braingate is the most advanced implant form i think, the rest run on sensors outside the skull.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=cDiWFcA0gaw video of it in use(brain gate)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BrainGate


the implant

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The quadriplegic it's being tested on (theres a socket in his skull)

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Never. the brain isn't very good at remembering things.

however We will have lots of things plugged into the brain.
We are only seeing the start of it. With bionic eyes, limbs and hearing devices.
 
Not bloody likely.

Data storage is all about making absolutely sure the client's data is retained, and available.

SANs don't get colds, they don't need food water and vitamins, they don't poo, they don't get all emotional from time to time (no wait, that's not strictly true), they're mostly hot swappable, they're redundant...
 
Zefan said:
Lol, just lol.
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This to be honest.

Though maybe in the *DISTANT* future we will see biological based computer systems in 100's of years times, (and I am not saying maybe as in it will probably happen, I am saying maybe as in for all we know what the future holds).

Human brains aren't going to be hard drives :p
 
gillywibble said:
This is probably complete garbage but, doesn't the subconscious remember everything?
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not everything, but the brain does actually recored a massive amount of detail (it can be accessed more clearly, by stimulating the hypothalamus or hipocampus i forget which), however the brain changes information it records, the more you think about it. It's why witness statements become useless after too long because as the person goes over it again and again, it gets replaced by virtual memory, which is what they "think" happened.

There was a study on it, the statements where drastically different after they asked them to picture what they saw etc several times over a period of time (i think thats what they did).
 
Tefal said:
There was a study on it, the statements where drastically different after they asked them to picture what they saw etc several times over a period of time (i think thats what they did).
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They did a similar one, with a ufo crash. they set it up. There was a bit of police tape and one person in a uniform. Over the next couple of weeks. They put ufo crash in the newspapers.

Then got statements. they saw everything from a crashed ufo to full combat ready soldiers..

The mind is brilliant but it does not keep things 100% like computers.
 
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