Darpa Wants Brain Implants That Record from 1M Neurons

Re:Darpa Wants Brain Implants That Record from 1M Neurons by sillysaurus3 on Monday July 10, 2017 @12:08PM (#14737180)

Well, it was firmly tongue in cheek. :) I've been thinking of trying to write some short stories pulling from various themes in technology. Most ideas have been done to death, but with a bit of skill it might be possible to write something worth reading.

A tangent, but: I've been wondering how a novelist builds their skill. They're not born with it. One idea would be to watch a movie and write it like a book, transcribing it scene for scene. I'm not sure whether that'd help, though.

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Re:Darpa Wants Brain Implants That Record from 1M Neurons by SubiculumCode on Monday July 10, 2017 @01:10PM (#14737766)

No ideas about the second, but an aside on the first.

'Most ideas have been done to death' is a central reason I have stopped reading novels that much. Ah its one of those, he will do this. Ah yes, I see the twist. its one of those.

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Re:Darpa Wants Brain Implants That Record from 1M Neurons by bllguo on Monday July 10, 2017 @04:20PM (#14739295)

I highly empathize with this. These days I'm just interested in imagination. I don't care if a book or novel or movie is good. I will most likely never consume it. I'm looking up synopses and scanning them for innovative ideas.

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Re:Darpa Wants Brain Implants That Record from 1M Neurons by hellbanner on Monday July 10, 2017 @12:17PM (#14737272)

Re tangent: Steven King's "on writing" or Ray Bradbury's "en in the art of writing"

write 1000 words a day, be crap for decades, eventually you get skilled.

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