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Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom

DAO

"Refresh" or a "restore from backup" is the cure for dying; which consists of creating a "force-grown" clone and downloading into its mind a backup of...

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Star Trek: First Contact

Star Trek: First Contact
A neural processor was a device implanted in the nervous system of every Borg drone containing a record of all the information received from the Collective.

A neural processor was a device implanted in the nervous system of every Borg drone containing a record of all the information received from the Colle...

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The City and the Stars

TCA

Memory storage in the end of the lives of human...

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The Matrix

The Matrix
Bluepills, human beings still hardwired into the Matrix via pods in the power plant, had their headjacks in non-stop use and did not know of its existence, effectively imprisoning the bluepill within the Matrix. As humanity was only expected to be disconnected from the Matrix upon death, the pod's data probe was very securely attached to the headjack.
Whenever a redpill was freed from the Matrix, a docbot was summoned, which proceeded to unpleasantly disconnect the data probe from the headjack, also disconnecting the rest of the tubes connected from the pod to the ports found along the body. The redpill, being assumed dead or dying, was then flushed into the sewers.

Bluepills, human beings still hardwired into the Matrix via pods in the power plant, had their headjacks in non-stop use and did not know of its exist...

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Westworld

Westworld
The cowboy hats were scanning brains and making copies of the guests allowing Delos to save those scans in the servers stored at the Valley Beyond (aka the Forge), creating a “Cradle” similar but much bigger than where Ford was hiding out.

The cowboy hats were scanning brains and making copies of the guests allowing Delos to save those scans in the servers stored at the Valley Beyond (ak...

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Johnny Mnemonic

Johnny Mnemonic
Jones is a cyborg dolphin. It was used by the navy. They made him addicted to drugs in order to ensure his affiliation. He was modified with an armor with crusted plates along his sides. Exposed sections of his body showed silver lesions. Twin deformities on either side of his skull had been engineered to house sensor units. The navy had him wired into an audiovisual display and he communicated with symbols. He served in the Pacific, using Squid
to tap into circuitry of enemy cyber mines and sweep them. Jones helped to decrypt the data in Johnny's mind.

Jones is a cyborg dolphin. It was used by the navy. They made him addicted to drugs in order to ensure his affiliation. He was modified with an armor ...

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Altered Carbon

Altered Carbon
Cortical Stacks serve as a receptacle for the human consciousness or Digital Human Freight (D.H.F.). All citizens within the Protectorate have a cortical stack implanted when they are one year old. Cortical Stacks are composed of a non-terrestrial metal left by an Alien civilization, along with astrogation charts mapping several habitable planets within the galaxy. Cortical Stacks were originally developed as a means of interstellar travel to reach these planets. By downloading the human consciousness, they were able to transmit it to a waiting body or "Sleeve" on a distant planet. This method of transmitting consciousness off-world, called Needlecasting, allowed instant travel to anywhere in the Settled Worlds that otherwise would take centuries to reach by traditional means.
Over time, this technology would become a method of immortality for those who could afford it. Placing the dead in new bodies, called "Re-sleeving", can be accomplished by simply downloading consciousness in a new Sleeve after death as long as the Cortical Stack is intact after sleeve-death. Citizens who cannot afford re-sleeving or do not want to be re-sleeved, have their Cortical Stacks placed in a storage facility after sleeve-death, where they can remain indefinitely.
Because of the nominal ability to revive anyone who dies, sleeve-death, so long as the cortical stack remained intact, was reduced to a lower level of legal concern, akin to property damage. Only if the stack was destroyed was such considered death or, if the result of violence, murder. It became common practice for the state to guarantee re-sleeving for victims of accidents or crimes, should they not specify their objection to being re-sleeved, although this re-sleeving was often done using whatever sleeves were available, regardless of quality or appropriateness, unless the individual had made other, usually extremely expensive, prior arrangements.
Care must be taken to avoid real death, as anything from blunt trauma to energy weapons fired at the stack (known as slagging) can destroy the stack.

Cortical Stacks serve as a receptacle for the human consciousness or Digital Human Freight (D.H.F.). All citizens within the Protectorate have a corti...

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Upgrade

Upgrade
STEM - implant used for linking, stimulation

STEM - implant used for linking, stimulation...

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Elysium

Elysium
Neural implant used to access cranial data, or brain data. Cranial Data, or Brain data is an arrangement of scripts or code, or even full data, that is stored in a computer chip implanted within someone's brain.
It seems that cranial data is a normal medium used by Elysium's citizens to secure and protect extremely sensitive data for transport, similar to a modern-day flash drive, but far more secure. There also appears to be data defense programs, such as the Sabre Cerebral Defense program that is being used to secure the code when one of the heroes uploads it into his brain, that provides further security in case someone attempts to use the code in an unauthorized manner.
With cranial data, just like any other type of data, it is possible for people to implant devices into the brain that is capable of syncing and "grabbing" the cranial data from the individual. This action is referred to as a data heist and is considered a type of theft. It is also hinted at in the movie that bank account codes and other financial security information is held in the cranial data bank, which would imply that the cranial data implant also functions as a security measure to authorize funds or even access to secured areas.

Neural implant used to access cranial data, or brain data. Cranial Data, or Brain data is an arrangement of scripts or code, or even full data, that i...

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Elysium

Elysium
stores the program in the brain using the implant.

stores the program in the brain using the implant....

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Halo Alpha

Halo Alpha
Command Neural Interface or CNI implants are implanted in the brain of every UNSC ship commander. In addition to the duties of a standard Neural Interface, they also have several purposes specific to a ship commander.
Once installed, they cannot be removed without killing the host or doing permanent damage to the host's brain without sophisticated surgery that is designed for this purpose. Their main use is the storage of data codes, NAV data, and also for receiving telemetry from outside sources. AIs can access the lace with the owner's consent and retrieve data for use. The owner of the lace can also receive data about the ship they command, sent directly to their retinas courtesy of the shipboard AI.

Command Neural Interface or CNI implants are implanted in the brain of every UNSC ship commander. In addition to the duties of a standard Neural Inter...

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Futurama S6 EP16 "Law and Oracle"

Futurama, S6 EP16 "Law and Oracle"
Pickles, a robot equipped with an advanced human brain that can predict crimes in advance before they happen.

Pickles, a robot equipped with an advanced human brain that can predict crimes in advance before they happen....

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The Matrix

The Matrix
A headjack is the small data port created on synthetically-grown humans who become connected to the neural-interactive virtual reality known as the Matrix. The headjacks were located at the base of the skull, just above where the neck meets the back of the head. Approximately 1 inch (2.54 cm) in diameter, it provided room within the otherwise close quarters of the human cranium for a data probe approximately 8 inches (20 cm) in length and 0.79 inches (2 cm) in diameter. These were installed during the synthetic humans' fetal stages and altogether redirected the brain's signals into any data probe plugged into the headjack. The headjack was the interface used to primarily connect to the Matrix. More than just connecting to the Matrix, however, the headjack was also used by redpills to connect to any compatible simulated reality like the Construct. Once a redpill was connected to either the Matrix or the Construct, the headjack could then be used to upload data directly into the human brain. This was used by the Resistance to great effect, uploading instructional information to support agents during training and even during mission proper. Some examples of the upload-able information used by the operatives were gun handling, a range of self defense and martial arts techniques, and helicopter piloting.
The manner by which the headjack and data probe worked had not been sufficiently described. But communication by the headjack was probably a mixture of electrical and electromagnetic transmissions, where the headjack was the central interface, with perhaps thousands of tiny connectors or electrodes that meld into and throughout the synthetic brain, or woven through the central nervous system at the brain stem.

A headjack is the small data port created on synthetically-grown humans who become connected to the neural-interactive virtual reality known as the Ma...

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Johnny Mnemonic

Johnny Mnemonic
data storage device implanted in the user's brain, allowing him to discreetly carry information too sensitive to transfer across the Net, the virtual-reality equivalent of the Internet. Uploading
data is a process that involves plugging a small cable directly into the skull and donning some protective gear to avoid damage during the very painful procedure.

data storage device implanted in the user's brain, allowing him to discreetly carry information too sensitive to transfer across the Net, the virtual-...

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Infinite

Infinite
chip to store consciousness of the person

chip to store consciousness of the person...

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The Shockwave Rider

TSR

A system for getting the thoughts and images out of a person's mind; recovering the data from a brain storage device...

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Ghost in the Shell

Ghost in the Shell
Cyberization is the process whereby a normal brain is physically integrated with electronic components to produce an augmented organ referred to as a cyberbrain. The terms were first coined in the anime and manga series Ghost in the Shell. Cyberbrain implants, in conjunction with micromachines, allow the brain to initiate and maintain a connection to computer networks or other individuals who also possess a cyberbrain. Through the use of a cyberbrain it is possible to have a direct, constant connection between the human brain and the Internet without the need for external devices. This capability results in a number of unforeseen psychosocial phenomena (including the Stand Alone Complex) whose emergence is a major plot element of the various Ghost in the Shell stories. A cyberbrain works, "similar" to a human brain, to make the body respond to the brain it shoots off an electrical signal through a mass of wiring, (similar to nerves) that's the basics on motion. The thought process is (in theory) close to the same as a fully organic brain.

Cyberization is the process whereby a normal brain is physically integrated with electronic components to produce an augmented organ referred to as a ...

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Hostile Waters Antaeus Rising

HWA

On board are a series of "soulcatcher" chips, a classified 1990s military program researched into for the storage of human brain functions on a silico...

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H+ : the digital series

H+ : the digital series
This device is a nanoscopic, neuroprosthetic brain-computer interface, developed by HPlus Nano Teoranta, that provides a human brain with a computer's storage and data retrieval, a wireless connection to the internet, and a heads up display/operating system that the user "sees" in their own visual field and interacts with using their hands or thoughts.

This device is a nanoscopic, neuroprosthetic brain-computer interface, developed by HPlus Nano Teoranta, that provides a human brain with a computer's...

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Shadow World

SW

A device that unlocked the dreams and fantasies inherent in the user's brain...

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Neuromancer

N

A small piece of firmware inserted into the brain that provides data on a particular subject, or special features, for the user...

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Old Man’s War

OMW

The BrainPal is a neural implant that allows members of the Colonial Defense Forces (CDF) to send and receive data, including speech, battle plans and...

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Flight of the Navigator

Flight of the Navigator
helmet demonstrating hidden knowledge within the brain of the user

helmet demonstrating hidden knowledge within the brain of the user...

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Cyberpunk 2077

Cyberpunk 2077
Netrunners are the types of savvy computer hackers you would find in the movie Hackers, but with a cybernetically augmented interface system implanted into their body. Using their brain-computer interface implants, they roam the Internet, looking for systems to hack and information to sell to fixers. Although anyone can enter the Net, most people can't use the "Menu." The Menu is a group of Applications (Apps) that are Interface programs that allows a Netrunner to Locate Remote, Run Software, Control Remote, LDL Link, Load, Create and Delete.

Netrunners are the types of savvy computer hackers you would find in the movie Hackers, but with a cybernetically augmented interface system implanted...

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