RelaX

Here is something I've thought about a lot of times, even concidered writing a story about it... hell even got started on it, though never finished it.

Say the technology existed to put a human brain in a vat and keep it alive for a couple of centuries.
Off course understanding of the brain and robotics have not yet advanced enough to make someone a perfect cyborg. Instead they would just hook the vat with brain up to a couple of electrodes so the person could communicate in a rudimentary way with the outside world. Presumably they would improve on this in time.

The thing is, to improve they need someone to test this on. Off course the scientists first think of the greatest minds alive, to preserve them. But what if the procedure fails?
So they decide to get a guinea pig, and place an advertisement. Would you apply? If you would, why? If not, why not?
Also who would you love to see cyborged, their wisdom preserved for the ages?

__________________
The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents.
- Nathaniel Borenstein