THE FUTURE IS ON THE BEACH
Electronic dolphin tattoos and neon back crucifixes
will soon fundamentally alter what it means to be human.
Imagine the Tesla coil crackle of tramp stamps on the beach.
Surely, humanity's future is bright with iridescent jellyfish
bicep skulls.
The JFK Neuroscience Centers,5301 S Congress Avenue,
Lake Worth, Florida, working in conjunction with the
Sabin/Salk Institute for Biological Studies and Genetic
Vaccine Preparedness, specializes in computer-assisted
techniques to alter mental states using flicker rates.
According to the United States Census Bureau, nanometer
epidermal electronics look less like a fire-breathing dragon
and more like circuitry-filled lick-and-peel numbers
you used to find in bubblegum wrappers as a kid.
The Gendarmerie Police unit will specialize in dispersing
gatherings of those humans still deemed dangerous to public order.
Did you know that average employed Americans will spend more than
75% of their waking hours each day working [source: Bureau of Labor
Statistics]? In order to enhance work efficiency with limited
sleep, neuroscientists hope to provide therapy using the VA-opsin
gene family found in fish so that humans might sleep using
lagophthalmos (with eyes open), to "decide" when to breath,
like whales, and to relocate the Central Pattern Generator
that co-ordinates human movements from the brain to the spinal
column.
Currently humans, who are more like mice, are limited by
pRGC photoreceptors maximally sensitive in the blue part
of the spectrum. These cells not only regulate the body clock
but also sleep and pupil constriction.
But there is hope. Data presented this week at the
annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience highlighted
the ability of a jellyfish protein “aequorin” to protect
neurons prior to an ischemic event.
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