{"id":426,"date":"2007-04-09T22:31:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-10T05:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/brain-implants\/"},"modified":"2008-05-09T14:49:37","modified_gmt":"2008-05-09T21:49:37","slug":"brain-implants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/brain-implants\/","title":{"rendered":"Brain implants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If it were technically possible and safe, would you enhance your brain with electronic implants?<\/p>\n<p>Some possibilities:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A clock, so you would always know what time it is without having to carry a watch, and never oversleep again<\/li>\n<li>A calendar, so you always know what you have planned for any particular day and time<\/li>\n<li>A calculator, so you could instantly do mental arithmetic on numbers many digits long<\/li>\n<li>A computer, so you could perform complex calculations just by thinking about it, and amuse yourself when bored by playing games in your head<\/li>\n<li>An internet connection, so you can instantly look up anything, send a message or check your email<\/li>\n<li>A borg-style \"hive mind\" implant so you can participate in shared consciousness with anyone else who has a compatible implant<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If it were technically possible and safe, would you enhance your brain with electronic implants? Some possibilities: A clock, so you would always know what time it is without having to carry a watch, and never oversleep again A calendar, so you always know what you have planned for any particular day and time A [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}