China working on standard for brain-computer interfaces China's government wants to develop a standard for brain-computer interfaces. News of the effort emerged yesterday when the nation's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology posted a plan to establish a technical committee charged with doing the job. An accompanying document explains that the committee will be asked to …
I think (for myself without the CCP spying or influencing me) that they (the CCP) can FORNICATE the HELL OFF with their "ISO standard".
4 years of tariffs and various sanctions under "you know who" will put a stop to this... (and the slave labor, and the unfair market tactics, and the mlitary posturing, and the industrial espionage, and the shipping of single males of military age across the US border, and the buying up of US farmland, and the shipping of fentanyl precursors to the drug cartels, etc.)
I can imagine in the not too distant dystopian future the residents of the PRC will be required to interface to People's Patriotic Cybercontroller.*
Edging closer to John Lumic's Cybus Industries' (mandatory) upgrade.
Although I imagine a successful hack of the Cybercontroller would be " game over."
* I imagine the "right" material downloaded into their unpatriotic "lying flat" (tang ping) youngsters could reverse the PRC's collapsing birth rate. :)
Lots of sniggering about "brain control" and the PRC/Communists taking over our minds, of course, but everyone's missing the point. For many years just about anything scientific and technical that's been published has been published in English. This gives us native speakers (and lousy linguists like me) a significant advantage. Meanwhile those copycat Chinese (the lot who apparently can't invent anything, just copy and steal etc.(, have been churning out scientific papers and patents like they churn out cellphones, household products and just about anything else. Up to now they've been kind enough to publish at least the abstracts in English but should they switch to Mandarin its going to make it very difficult for us to participate.
(There is a precedent for this. Up to about the 1930s a knowledge of German was necessary to participate in international scientific efforts.)
For many years just about anything scientific and technical that's been published has been published in English.
There is a thriving open-source technology industry in China, all in Hanzi.
They haven't felt any need or desire to translate the material into English, so all you see is the cheap chinese electronics.
I write 'Hanzi', because of course, "Mandrin' writing isn't really a thing, and Cantonese and Hokkien are also spoken.
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