Comments on: Connecting Your Brain Directly To The Internet

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By: kidmercury

kidmercury — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 01:55:58 +0000

have you read the book "the age of spiritual machines" by ray kurzweil? it talks a lot about the man machine merger. i bet you would find it interesting if you have not read it already.

By: wiseleo

wiseleo — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 01:55:55 +0000

Can't wait!

All that spam flooding straight into my brain… oh the rush of it!

By: jdfalk

jdfalk — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 01:55:55 +0000

Reading the foundrygroup post, it sure sounds like this company's aim is to measure our brains for the benefit of advertisers — which is also an interesting idea from science fiction, but corporate access to my brain is not a future I'd look forward to.

EmSense, as one of the first in this field, will set the standards & de facto best practices that all future ventures will adopt. But will they follow the lead of the email marketing industry, making spam a gigantic industry and generally abusing their customers until absolutely forced to change? Will they follow the example of the social networks, ignoring privacy, security, and even scaling issues, each one making the same mistakes as their predecessors? Or will they put their subjects first, refusing to abuse our brains no matter how much money the voracious advertising industry waves in their faces?

By: Steve Silverstein

Steve Silverstein — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 01:55:55 +0000

Brad, I have always found your investments to be thoughtful and credible, and I also believed that the Foundry group performs adequate due diligence and exercises duty of care, so I am a little surprised at this one. Emsense makes fraudulent claims on measuring the brain when all they have are some bio-metrics. Their headset measures frontalis muscle activity, and NOT the frontal lobes, especially with two puny sensors. I spoke to a few of my friends in the faculty at MIT, and the Media Lab, and the Neuroscience department, and they are actually appalled and outraged that Emsense would make claims and involve MIT's name claiming tacit support. I have written to Coca Cola asking why they would waste valuable marketing dollars endorsing psuedo-science. Who gets harmed by this – end consumers, Coca Cola, their shareholders, the good name of MIT, the credibility of its alumni (people like me) and perhaps your fund investors also.

By: Byte Me

Byte Me — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 01:55:55 +0000

Brad feld wants the net to eat brains!

I can see the applicability for predictive modeling

By: the little buddha

the little buddha — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 01:55:55 +0000

would the dalai lama approve?

By: Brad Feld

Brad Feld — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 20:29:10 +0000

Itâs in my infinite pile of books to read.

By: bfeld

bfeld — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 20:28:46 +0000

It’s in my infinite pile of books to read.