IJMC - What Will They Think Of Next

I used to love that television show. Something about being so close to 
the year 2000, the idea of thinking of what's to come seems to have 
fallend behind. Oh well...I can keep thinking about what we will have in 
twenty or forty years. I just have to imagine the neato keeno production 
that used to go along with it.                                     -dave






Truth IS stranger than fiction....

From: http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/filters/bursts/0,3422,2155145,00.html

12:07p
Man controls PC with thoughts
A paralyzed Georgia man who received a tiny brain implant has become the
first human to control a computer using only his thoughts. Known only by his
initials, J.R., the 53-year-old man was the second person to receive the
implant, about the size of the tip of a ballpoint pen, but only the first to
successfully communicate with a computer using his thoughts, said Dr. Roy
Bakay, who developed the implant with Dr. Phillip Kennedy. "What we've done
is enabled a patient who was unable to move his limbs or speak to
communicate through a computer," Bakay, an Emory University researcher,
said. "We have him think about movement. This sends a signal to a receiving
unit in his scalp, which sends a message to the computer screen." -- Reuters