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> When the black goggles he was wearing projected video images of his surroundings as a pulsed light beam onto those now-light-sensitive cells, the neurons fire
by vimy 5y ago
> When the black goggles he was wearing projected video images of his surroundings as a pulsed light beam onto those now-light-sensitive cells, the neurons fired, and the signal traveled up the optic nerve and into the visual processing center of the brain. The genetically modified neurons had become stand-ins for the photoreceptors he had lost many years before to a genetic disease called retinitis pigmentosa.
Sounds like the visor Geordi La Forge is wearing. Star Trek predicted cellphones, tablets and now this. Hopefully teleportation is next.
- WalterBright 5y agoYour clone that emerged from the teleporter would never know that you died screaming in agony as you were disassembled.
- thaumasiotes 5y agoIs there a problem? More interestingly, Star Trek had one episode and then some recurring references covering the idea that you can clone someone in a transporter without dissolving the original copy. You would expect a large number of people to want to do this, but it just never comes up.