{"id":485,"date":"2009-11-03T21:43:47","date_gmt":"2009-11-04T02:43:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/?p=485"},"modified":"2009-11-03T21:43:49","modified_gmt":"2009-11-04T02:43:49","slug":"magnetoception-will-be-our-first-superhuman-sense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/03\/magnetoception-will-be-our-first-superhuman-sense\/","title":{"rendered":"Magnetoception Will Be Our First Superhuman Sense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Magnetoception\">Magnetoception<\/a>, the ability to sense magnetic fields like a compass, is my prediction for the first widely implemented super-sense, because it&#8217;s so simple.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m no biologist, but it certainly seems that only a little wetware is necessary to implement magnetoception, since even <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Magnetotactic_bacteria\">bacteria<\/a> have it. On the mechanical front, tiny manometers have been built into millions of devices already. I have no idea what the state of the art is, but the first <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ssec.honeywell.com\/magnetic\/datasheets\/HMC5843.pdf\">3-axis digital compass chip<\/a> I found on google measures 4x4x1.3mm. They&#8217;re only getting smaller and more efficient. We already have the technology to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wired\/archive\/15.04\/esp.html\">build it into belts<\/a> and clothing.<\/p>\n<p>But I hope I&#8217;m wrong. Certainly, the future promises more than better compasses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Magnetoception, the ability to sense magnetic fields like a compass, is my prediction for the first widely implemented super-sense, because it&#8217;s so simple. I&#8217;m no biologist, but it certainly seems that only a little wetware is necessary to implement magnetoception, since even bacteria have it. On the mechanical front, tiny manometers have been built into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[522,352,117,521,354],"class_list":["post-485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-compass","tag-cyborgs","tag-futurism","tag-senses","tag-transhuman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":486,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485\/revisions\/486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}