Definitely I can not keep my mouth shut!
I’m a great enthusiastic of new technologies even more those applied in the Health ground, though I am hell not relaxing with the idea of the computer software giant Microsoft has been granted exclusive rights to exploit the human skin's conductive properties and monopolizes eventually my body’s central nervous system. That would most likely imply that once we all are linked to the Microsoft network, Bill Gates will be able to control our minds!

According to the patent, the technology involved could combine chips and sensors fitted around our bodies to sense and react to the changing circumstances of our everyday lives, giving medical information, biorhythmic data, even tell someone that you are stuck on traffic on your way to work (and the truth is that you just took the two first hours of the day to go on sleeping... How can we all lye then?) Oh God...And most a dramatically consequence would be making us believe that black square glasses are fashionable!

Seriously there are big questions here with important ethical concerns; for instance a bioethical international committee points out interesting issues like:

How far can such information and communication technologies (perhaps at recent future) have irreversible impacts in the human body and/or in the human psyche and how can reversibility be preserved?

How will they influence human memory?

Does a human being cease to be such a “being” in cases where some parts of his or her body – particularly the brain - are substituted and/or supplemented by these implants?

Particularly creating “networked persons” that are always connected and could be configured differently so that from time to time they can transmit and receive signals allowing movements, habits and contacts to be traced and defined. This is bound to affect their dignity.

I’ll keep on asking: How far this technology gives an individual, or a group, specific capabilities that could become a threat to society? And put in dangerous my privacy?

Does not the use of the human body for the enrichment of technology create an improved “race” originating a new form of racism?

Where are the limits of such technology for the creation of more efficient bodies and brains for economic purposes?

How do “normal” people relate to persons with technological implants that are connected online?

How far are technology investments dependent on values as control or efficiency that may lead human beings to become even more dependent on market forces and even on the possibility of their (legal) use in the work place?

How far it’s possible to use technology in order to track human beings and in which cases should this be legally allowed?

To what extent does this technology allow manipulation by and for advertising?

To what extent might this technology be misused by the military?

I just keep wondering...Don’t you?!
(Shhh...And in the meantime I’ll be refining my temperamental guts on a secret conspiracy against a potential Microsoft Mind Invasion).

Well, it sure can be bad, but hey, think on he bright side, it will also definetly have god things about it. Guess we will all have to write firewall software into our system. People will only break into mind control schemes if their will power is not strong enough i think.
But, the question has it interests... reminds me of Ghost in The Shell.

Cyber-Individuals :D

We're getting there.