The Android Generation - Up and Coming Improvements in Human Powers

ost anyone today that intercepts the word “Android” will most likely conjure up the name of a myriad mobile phone brands with the Android operating system working in tandem with beautiful

touch screens, high performance processors and super “smart” circuitry.

Very few will think of Isaac Asimov’s legendary Robot series that premiered into the public consciousness the very definition of, and the Three Laws of Robotics - which to most heralded the very definitive word on the intelligent purpose of the machines in society.

Isaac also pioneered the idea of the positronic brain or the positronic “matrix”, an artificial neural network that mimics the human brain functions but on an inhuman level and scale ... As can only be managed by a technologically advanced society that had already left Earth ages ago and found itself sprawled on several systems within the uncharted galaxy.

As early as 1950, Isaac Asimov introduced the dramatic storytelling device of artificial technology in an android, through sheer accident and programming manipulation, that enables the machine to not only have full spectrum telepathic powers but also the ability to influence and modulate

its thoughts into a target human being or other robots.

Thus the android, built to assist humans in conquering the galaxy becomes the unknown master able to control the thoughts and actions of its creators and soon rises to power due to its ability to survive its creators by many generations.

Incredible science fiction, nowadays so trite and over imitated. Yawwwn ...

The copycats of Asimov have been by the bushel load, due in no small part to his raging success with the publishing world, his generation and many that would follow. The big dislocation of fiction from reality is this happened yesterday and not in the distant Asimovian future.

A high-tech company in Northern California is hard at work in bringing to the commercial realm mind reading artificial brain interface technology, for the sake of better, hotter and more enjoyable "real" video games.

This latest "Pong" is currently in the form of a helmet, that the wearers don, the system