Several theories describe the possibility that LOST was merely a technological construct of digital ties in the brain or brains of the main characters. A neuro-network fused together to share dreams, memories, fears and nightmares. The island story was merely the expunged data of a wired community in a bizarre experiment.
These theories may not be that far fetched after all. Science is continuing to press computer technology to new limits. Currently, it is trying to be integrated more into every person's daily life. From powerful hand held smart phones to wearable technology (like fit bracelets), humans are being merged into data collectors.
Google's Director of Engineering,
Ray Kurzweil, who has made 147 predictions since the 1990s and has a
success rate of 86 per cent, stated recently in a Daily Mail (UK) article that within the next 12 years the human brain will be directly connected to computers.
Kurzweil
says when we live in a cybernetic society we will have computers in our
brains and machines will be smarter than human beings. He
claims this is already happening with technology - especially with our
addiction to our phones - and says the next step is to wire this
technology into our brains.
Technological singularity is when carbon and silicon-based intelligence will merge to form a single global consciousness. "By 2029, computers will have human-level intelligence," Kurzweil said in the interview with SXSW.
He believes that implanting computers in our brains will improve us."We're
going to get more neocortex, we're going to be funnier, we're going to
be better at music. We're going to be sexier," he said.
But once computers are integrated directly into a person's brain, people can be networked like machines. The fantasy world of Ghost in the Shell seems to be the premise of this scientific research. People will have the option of swapping their internal organs with sophisticated machine parts.
But this begs to ultimate question: would this end our humanity?
