[bluestarultor]

I think that technology is going to be less about "how can we mechanize ourselves" and more about "what kind of sweet shit can we build with this?" Honestly, as another IT major with a focus on programming, we're getting some pretty nifty A.I. right now. This kind of technology might help greatly with that, depending on how it actually turns out. When you start delving into the possibilities of analog data and data memory, you might well be able to build a robot that has a memory-based emotional reaction to a person in a degree of the original and subsequent emotional impacts from their meetings.

I think it's a hell of a lot better application than trying to stick it into a human brain, which already has a better capacity than anything in computers right now.