A shout-out to reader Raywalt de Cuba for suggesting this idea.
What if it were possible to connect your brain to the Internet, either wirelessly or through a cable, download digital information at high speed, and then translate it automatically into a chemical form that could be stored by your brain cells as memory?
About Patrick J. Kiger, Science Writer. Patrick J. Kiger has written from print publications ranging from GQ to the Los Angeles Times, and is a longtime contributor to Discovery.com, HowStuffWorks, and other web sites.
For several years, he wrote the Science Channel's "Is This a Good Idea?" blog, and we are proud to have him back! He's also the author of Science Channel's Story of the Week Feature and Creator of Head Rush Science Experiments for Kids.
Patrick is also the co-author, with Martin J. Smith, of Poplorica: A Popular History of the Fads, Mavericks, Inventions, and Lore that Shaped Modern America HarperResource, 2004), and Oops: 20 Life Lessons from the Fiascoes That Shaped America (Collins, 2006). Both are now available on Kindle.
You can see more of his work at www.patrickjkiger.com
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