Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for November 24, 2013

How can school be as interesting as that.

If you paid a little extra, the doctor would have given you enough knowledge for a PhD.

If only…

What a horror! I hope, I’ve died meanwhile!When they shorten our pensions so on, we’ll die certainly sooner!!

Thanks everyone, now I’ll lie awake and worry about mind control. LOLdon’t forget to ask for THEM to FREE DRY!

A bit of mind control could be quite beneficial if applied to certain aberrant members of society. The glitch in the program shows up when we try to figure out who is aberrant. Who decides? Preachers? Scholars? Teachers? Bankers? Judges? The guy whose trash can you accidentally knocked over? It would be a puzzlement, since no one is ever right all the time except the trolls, and then only in their own mind.

Send Dr. 5-40 to Washington D.C. next.

“Mind Control”That requires a receiver/antenna to get commends from a transmitters. Also, no two human brains are alike. Which means “hacking” into in order to mind-control will be very complex and difficult because it’s huge-huge mess in there. I highly doubt a single chip (by itself) is all it takes for Mind Control, even BORG-Grade technology requires more than one component, unless it’s incredibly super advance.

Even if a single chip is installed, all it’s doing is improving the speed/process of thought. It may not necessarily improve memory, which might/would require another chip elsewhere in the brain.

Completely unrelated to the comic, but it has C&H:

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And if that was possible, they wouldn’t send the kid home to have 12 years of fun. They would have him head to college or the workforce.

But once again reality rears its’ ugly head

At least the driver won’t feel lonely today.

wish it worked like that

So true, sadly.

Thanks for the heads-up on the bad link, PixieJane. The link dropped a zero. Here it is again. – For those who follow the antics of Calvin and Hobbs, I found a story entitled Calvin Does High School in a fanfiction site consisting of 15 chapters. I thought it would be worth a look-see and a few comments: Cavin Does High School.

And 40 years ago we were supposed to have flying cars in ever garage by now, too.

You’ve got the right of it when it comes to school.

Truth. There are short-cuts. What I’ve always wondered is where the short-cuts and the main road lead…

I wonder if those pickled people brains are by prescription only or if you can get them over the counter?

This is one of those strips that gets closer and closer to reality as it ages. I wonder when the time will come that the last panel doesn’t make sense.

Sometimes, I don’t see why Calvin’s still in school. The vocabulary that comes out of his mouth, is amazing. No wonder why he hates it.

Dreams and Reality do not mix!

xxx

I think a more possible “update” to humans will be a wireless link between the brain and the Internet Cloud. Wearable computing, Google’s Glass and Motorola’s new Bluetooth interface, a wearable neck patch, are the beginning. Once the Techies get the interfaces figured out, the rest will come along. Hang on, it’s going to be an interesting next few decades.

“and quite a bit I learned in public school was done on my own initiative, plus I learned to read, multiply, and divide before the school ever got around to teaching that to me.”~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Me too, but I doubt you were beaten up for ‘knowing too much’ as I was back in the early ’40’s in a one-room schoolhouse environment.Stupid hay-shakers, anyways….

“A fellow back in the 1970’s found a way to influence minds without any embedded technology. Just the use of VHF antennas.” …From the article you linked !: “Dr Delgado used a radio signal to activate an electrode implanted deep in the bull’s brain.”…sort of like Electro-Convulsive Therapy (Shock treatment) than cognitive “guidance” / mind control ?

I wonder if there is supposed to be some message in the Dr.’s name. 5-40. Hmmm…all the knowledge needed between the ages of 5 and 40, perhaps?

“Dumb Luck + Life may not be fair”Sadly wasted upon the wrong people…

I remembered an old cartoon story book (in Chinese, btw) of a boy who went to see Professor/Doctor for a Instant-Genius machine. The boy was hooked-up by a headband with wires on it to his head that made him smarter instantly. The boy did great in school and excelled in table-tennis (suppository better hand/eye coordination) although the story is that he’s suppose to be smarter, not better coordinated (already a momentously huge flaw by the author). Later in life, one day, all that geniusness… GONE!! Near the end of the story, he’s an old man starting from square-one.-—————That sounds very similar to the plot of the 1968 movie “Charly”, starring Cliff Robertson and Clare Bloom, which was based in turn on the novel, “Flowers for Algernon.” See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charly

Is it a coincidence that this strip came in the middle of a series about Calvin mechanically enhancing his own brain?

One day calvin, one day..