Brewster Rockit by Tim Rickard for September 21, 2020

Oh, THIS is going to end well!

Just wait for someone to hack your internet connected brain and see how that goes.

Before the internet came along and gave people access to unparalled levels of knowledge, it was easy to be ignorant.

Now, you really have to work at staying ignorant, and boy do people do that.

Huh, like the pinplants from the Four Horsemen Universe.

no chance of malware here

Unlimited cat videos!

I rather suspect Brewster’s weapons-grade stoopid is gonna fry the chip.

Does Elon know this?

And every morning you wake to, “Update available, install now?” for your OS, which will be incompatible with the software currently in your head… Dating sites will ask, if you’re Windows, Apple, or Unix.

Perpetually a teenager

Too bad. We used to be innovators.

Read Dean Koontz’s Jane Hawk series. Chipped brains definitely not a good idea.

Hey…such a procedure could come in handy on Internet discussion boards.

“The President’s Analyst” anyone?

I was part of a study into neural chip implants, but unfortunately I was in the placebo group so I have a potato chip implanted in my brain instead.

For most people in the present-day USA, there’s nothing worth knowing if they don’t already know it.

“The trouble with people is not that they don’t know but that they know so much that ain’t so.” – Various attributions

Oh no. Not my mind, you internet trackers who want to display personalised ads in my head!

The problem I see with that idea is that these days the crap on the Internet far outweighs the real knowledge. Brewster is clearly unable to tell the difference.

What is so bad about being an American?

Considering that the internet is 95 percent misinformation, whack-job conspiracy theories, and cat videos, “unlimited knowledge” wouldn’t be a term I would use. The remaining 5% is GoComics btw.

We did this before. It’s called msm on television

“What kinda chip you got in there? A Dorito?” —Alfred Yankovic

“Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.”

“Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated.” Or if you prefer another franchise “upgraded.”

and it’s inserted anally

I know all kinds of things which are unsupported by a single shred of evidence.

First true and incisive thing I’ve ever heard (or seen) Brewster say.

He’s missing the most important component – a search engine that can find actual knowledge.

Darn it, he’s right!

Just call him “Chuck”

The new “Outer Limits” had an episode on this idea where everyone in the world except for one person had the implant. Guess what happens?