2012 Projected Technology Horizon…
2012 is bringing out the best and the brightest of ideas… that in all seriousness is 50% sarcastic and 50% serious. 2012 has spawned birth to a public platform that is ranging wider than our fields of beautiful amber waves of grain… From the most obscure mythological factions to cutting edge technological ideas of advancement, we as citizens of this world are definitely progressing on a rapidly accelerating journey of change which may or may not culminate in something significant specifically in 2012.
Like most things in history though… events are only as significant as the value that people place on them.
As I wade through a seemingly endless network of links and articles on 2012 that make the Everglades seem like a leisurely stroll… I am discovering all kinds of technology being put into production that I have never even imagined. Yet… at the same time I am finding seemingly convincing information on a food shortage. I mean, look at the following…
Emotional Gaming – “Project Epoc”
The use of EEG brain scanning has now moved into the gaming industry with up–to–date developments in sensory gaming. Recently Emotiv publicly released information on their upcoming ‘Project Epoc’, a developmental technology that interprets electrical signals emitted by the brain and converts them into actions on a computer. In this way the user/gamer is able to direct actions via their thoughts in the online environment. Below are pictures of two prototypes which the company expects to market some time in 2008. – Gnosticliberationfront.com
So we can invent machines that allow us to play video games through thought but we can’t monitor global food production and supply? We can’t have a super advanced spreadsheet that calculates a 10 year projection of our coming food needs but you can sit on your couch and play a video game without moving a muscle?! Okay… it will probably require something a little more advanced than a spreadsheet but in light of the EEG Gaming contraption displayed above, I think our billions(?) of dollars in global agriculture could have slapped a stats system together?
Are we seriously being told that an obscure corporation can slap together a machine that reads your actual thoughts AND converts them into tangible actions but there isn’t a capability to create a hybrid of an Excel spreadsheet and Google Analytics on steroids to keep the 21st Century middle class global citizenry from going hungry?
Does that ring a little ludicrous only to me…?! Will that change by 2012?! Hello? Do you think we can have a multi-billion(?) dollar industry that deals with life or death necessities (food & drink) catch up with the metric measurement and projection capabilities of obscure tech companies (see above EEG contraption) and webmasters worldwide (see Google Analytics)?
Anybody?
