Outside Reading Post 4

For M.E.A., I was assigned to read, "The Unspeakable Odyssey of the Motionless Boy," and comment on how I thought it was. In my opinion, I really enjoyed it; it was depicted with tons of imagery and it was very real. The only real reason that made me enjoy this reading was one, Mr. Cheng, my english teacher, read most of it to us; and second, it was interesting and more of a teenage reading. One part that I particularly found interesting was on page 217, where Kennedy, a pioneer in the field of brain-computer interface research, explains to Erick, the one who has locked-in syndrome, how the computer chip that Kennedy has placed into Erick's brain, works and functions. From the text, "Imagine, Kennedy suggests, a 'personal digital assistant in the brain.' Or a digital surrogate memory that remembers everything. Or the entire contents of Google a single thought away." To me this was interesting how he compared the brain's power to locate memorys like google locates things you search for, such a vast amount of things the brain has the power to do is compared to the biggest search engines in the world today. I thought that was amazingly cool. Overall, it was a great and fascinating reading.