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Braingate: New Memory & Motor Enhancing Implants Have A Dark Side

The Police and Military May Have Exclusive Contractual Rights To These Long Awaited Neural Implants

NTRĒ has been a hard company to ignore lately. A variety of companies have been promising non-invasive DBMIs (Deep Brain-Machine Interfaces) for nearly fifty years now, each one failing catastrophically. Then, NTRĒ stole the spotlight with an augmented chimpanzee named Elon.

As though the spotlight wasn’t enough, Elon stole our hearts when he began to work on solving a series of puzzles by drawing unbelievably adorable pictures of each puzzle to help him solve them.

Without the implant, a chimpanzee can barely draw a circle, a square or a triangle — forget about a star. The specialized DBMI not only helped Elon develop the ability to draw basic shapes, it enabled him to use his new skill as a modelling platform for physical systems.

Most of us, with some few exceptions, are born with the ability to model extremely complex systems. Social interactions, behaviors, mechanical systems, etc. Every now and then, we bump up against a problem we need to work out on paper; this is one of the ways we use mathematics.

Scientists have long known that chimpanzees and other great apes have a theory of mind. NTRĒ’s lead scientist, David Leskins, demonstrated that a theory of mind, in conjunction with an artificial controller, is all that was required for Elon to begin exhibiting extremely complex modelling behaviors.

The implant given to Elon is child’s play compared to the implants NTRĒ has been working for human patients; yet it enabled him to solve physical puzzles faster, and in some cases more creatively, than an eight year old human child. The discovery lit imaginations across the globe, and the excitement is still almost as palpable as it was then. Humanity, it seems, is finally ready to become a world of super-intelligent beings.

Fast-forward to just a few years back in 2067. NTRĒ announced that two DBMI implants called Recall® and Reticle® will be in full commercial swing by the summer of 2068.

Recall® and Reticle® are the world’s very first, human-ready, trial tested, neural enhancing implants. Both take less than five minutes to seed the installation. No surgery, no scars.

Dr. Leskins and his team developed the seed install; self-implanting bio-capable systems. A series of microfibers are painlessly fed into the floor of the mouth (the soft, horseshoe shaped area under the tongue) which takes only two minutes for the nearly three miles of fiber to completely embed themselves. Each fiber is a revolutionary achievement in nanotechnology, composed of an extremely complex assortment of carbon nanotubes, polymers, ATP delivery tubules, and a vast array of chemicals and proteins. Several of the components can self-replicate, self-heal, and repair other components.

The seed fibers themselves are called O’farre strings. Uncusin is the motor protein responsible for the incredibly quick automotive delivery. Based on the myosin protein found in muscle cells, uncusin attaches to an actin-based net-like structure lined with ATP molecules. This actin-net is meticulously arranged and woven by the brilliantly engineered Mega P.B. (or Mega-Protein Bundle) at the head of the fiber. The Mega P.B. gets its raw materials from several different ‘highways’ built into the fiber which draws the material up from a solution (comically termed ‘the nutrient solution’) the fiber is bathed in all the way up until it leaves the spinner head. The spinner, of course, is the machine which grows the fibers as they’re fed underneath the patient’s tongue.

After the fiber has completely entered the body, it is shut off from the source of the nutrient solution; however the ATP-rich solution contained within transport tubules is more than enough for the fiber to complete its journey and setup shop.

Miraculously, there are no chips, wires, circuits, or data-stores. This system was designed to behave completely like an organic system; an approach which is incredibly precise and has executed over ten thousand trial installs flawlessly.

It can take about a week for the entire system to set itself up. It then takes another two or three days for the system to bring itself online. Once active, each user has to actually learn how to use it; though, we hear it’s a fairly elementary learning curve.

Recall® is touted to gift its users with perfect sensory recall for any experience up to two weeks old. Granted, after an experience, or memory, hits the ripe old age of fourteen days, it takes its place among the rest of your normal, colorless memories and can no longer be recalled in all of its immersive beauty.

Recall® is designed to be an extremely vibrant short-term memory that’s not as short as your traditional short-term memory. As it turns out, this can be quite useful when learning a new skill, studying an opponent, practicing for perfection, or even tracking your memories for your missing car keys. You can see how this might have quite the appeal to, say, a detective or a soldier.

Reticle® gifts its users with about 90% accuracy for almost any hand-eye skill; meaning anything that requires “aim”. From footballs and rocks to throwing knives and handguns. Anything hand-thrown or hand-held instantly becomes second nature.

Here’s the kicker, Reticle® actually increases your accuracy when your adrenals kick in — up to 99.9%! Did you catch that? Instead of your aim dropping to almost nothing (like the traditional human response), it ramps your aim up to god-mode accuracy when you’re in distress. How does that even make sense?

This all sounds like a great place to start the augment frenzy, doesn’t it? Well, not so fast. Until yesterday, we all thought we were welcome to a slice of this next-level pie as soon as it gets pulled out of ol’ granny’s oven in a couple of weeks. Then, the scene changed rather abruptly.

A 52 year old NTRĒ researcher, Frank Dennon Mortenson, went missing several weeks ago. Frank’s disappearance was kept under and extremely tight seal for reasons we’ve only partially discovered. Yesterday he reappeared in Austria under the Verratach Protectorate’s roof with just under 81 yottabytes of data in his possession. Yes, you read that right, he has a near 81 yottabytes of encrypted documentation which he claims is in the interest of the people of The United Northern Continents.

Before we get to Mortenson’s claim, allow me to levy the burden of your whirring minds concerning this ungodly volume of data.

Mortenson’s press contacts have all reported that the bulk of this data comes from a series of incredibly high-resolution holomorphic images. Not holographic, those still don’t exist in a way this would make sense; we’re talking about holomorphics.

Holomorphic imagery was developed by a team from the Sekhem experiment site in Kenya. Sekhem was the second experiment to go up after the Equatorial accelerator and collider was turned on. Sekhem’s discoveries in the following years, and a need for a more complete picture of what they were seeing, developed holomorphics.

Holomorphic capture enables a unique and breathtaking method of capturing the intricacies and inner-workings of subatomic particles; specifically subatomic particles that have higher dimensions curled up, or folded up, or wrinkled up inside of them.

Don’t worry — this gets even weirder.

Mortinson’s data, apparently, contains holomorphic captures of several different human brains; some with the install — and some without.

Unfortunately, as far as the holomorphic captures go, that’s all we have right now. There is, however, the matter of the documents. Granted, the docs are comparably much smaller; a fraction of a fraction of a fraction smaller. Despite the relative size of Mortenson’s documents, their impact has been exponentially larger; at least for the time being.

Several of the documents are signed agreements between the Police General’s office, The High Commander-General’s office, and The NTRĒ Corporation; all of which evoke a definite sense that the implants were, and always have been, a Military-Police scheme to further weaponize their forces.

Before you run off and start a riot, please remember that we really don’t know any of the details here. The contract terminology is vague at best, and then there’s the insane puzzle of the holomorphic captures.

Judging by the sheer size and scale of this likely scandal, don’t be half shocked if it takes several years to unfold.

In the mean time, stay safe and know that whatever the plan was here, Mortenson has at least thrown a whopping wrench in the gears. I would be surprised if they don’t get completely shutdown and the military and police minds behind this are severely punished.

I’ll continue to stay on top of this and post at every new shocking turn. But uh, in the meantime, maybe stay away from the implants until we know what in Zeus’ kingdom is going on.

DKM