Something about this sits poorly with me. The science is neat, the implications are huge, but I can't help but feel bad for the monkey.
I really hope that someone makes a botnet out of rodents that is used to predict the weather. That would be amazing.
We don't know what it is, but it has one indeed.
Maybe with more NIH funding we could find out...
It's funny - my reactions to this, I realized, were all inspired by Mass Effect.
On the one hand, I was thinking Asari (if you haven't played, it's pretty much a whole species of touch-telepathic, telekinetic blue space women) and how amazing it might be to share thoughts.
On the other hand, there's David who was hooked up to a network of intelligent software (not technically AI - think of it like a self-replicating hivemind that needs several hundreds, if not thousands, of different software instances to control a body) and pretty much lost his mind until he was unhooked - which was made worse by the fact the reason he was hooked is that he was autistic and could understand the machine-speak.
I just hope it's not too loud in there.
Yeah I hear it all the time. But personally, I find that they could hardly do a better ending. It put a definitive end to the Myth of Shepard (which I'm 90% certain will play into Andromeda), gave solutions, made the games matter (which is something I found to be the only one to say it - but when you think about it, and if Bioware doesn't cement a story for Andromeda, what you did or did not do, and how you did it directly affects the whole future. Did Shepard or the Alliance bravely destroyed a Mass Relay to save the galaxy? Are the Matriarch Dillinga scripts, from a time before most could think of, going to be available? Will the Krogan, Geth and Quarian be part of the galactic picture? Sure, it didn't affect the ending - but true to the spirit of the game, it affected EVERYTHING). And to top it off, it was even vague enough to allow people to debate and interpret it differently.
To me, that ending was amazing.