I liked the intro to Andy Clark's Natural Born Cyborg chapter describing his visit to the Black Hole (even before I found it was Prof Rocha who took him there!!)So here is a link to the Black Hole website. In case you are too busy to check out this link here is a picture of one of the big chunky techno type machines he mentions in his intro..
Further along in the reading he writes of the "wearable remembrance agent" giving a detailed description of its usage. I found this to be a little disturbing, not just because of the traceability of ones movements, but also in what it could do to one's brain. If we don't use the connections in our brains they can shut down on us. For example, I have a son who has horrendous vision in one eye and perfect in the other. If left unattended the brain could opt just to use the good eye, possibly eventually causing the connection to the bad eye to shut down.

This isn't his normal eye patch!!!!!

Luckily the problem was discovered, and he wears a patch a few hours a day over the good eye in order to keep the connection between the bad eye and the brain active. It seems that having two memory systems, the virtual RA system and the actual brain might not be the best idea. Perhaps the brain's connection to its own memory reserves would weaken as it went unused.

Out of fairness, I am including a picture of my other son, alongside his hero..

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2 quick questions for the instructors: why isn't my colspan working in the bottom table??? why are there large breaks before the tops of my tables???? only answer if it's not too much of a hassle to scour my code!! thanks!!