A personal memory maker? Good idea or bad?

[jadamz]

The First Step Toward a Personal Memory Maker?

Decent memory is a matter of livelihood, of independence, most of all the identity.

Human memory is the ghost in the neural machine, a widely distributed, continually changing, multidimensional conversation among cells that can reproduce both the capital of Kentucky and the emotional catacombs of that first romance.

The news last week that scientists had developed a brain implant that boosts memory — an implantable “cognitive prosthetic,” in the jargon — should be astounding even to the cynical.

 

[7Critter]

It sounds Frankensteinish, but I'd like to read more on the subject.

 

[Lynne]

As long as it is just a device that aids our normal thinking. Pace makers save lives everyday and we think nothing about them. This would be a huge breakthrough for Alzheimer’s and dementia patients. I watched my grandma die of Alzheimer’s and I would have tried this to save her from it. I think when they try to make us “improved” lies the danger. I hope this is able to save lives because they’re going to advance this tech anyway.