November 21, 2009
Cyborg Status
If you could have computer chips wired into your brain, would you?
So just how dependent on, and even addicted to, the Internet and computers have some of us become? Would any of us want to be actually hard-wired to the cyber-world?
Zogby International found out by asking very large online samples of U.S. adults some hypothetical questions about whether or not they'd like to connect their brains to the Internet or have computer chip implants. We weren't expecting anywhere near majorities to say they would indeed want to be players in this brave new world. But if you believe that only the most daring super-geeks among us would want to go there, you are wrong.
Please click here to read the full article. (8/6/2009)