The "Operation Game" Updated

  If  the minds of senior citizens, AKA old people, could be wired to respond to select stimuli, what a godsend that would be.  I'm referring to the verbal section of the brain, the memory if you will.  The called-upon brain section could be activated through an impulse delivered via an earplug type device.  Then if someone for whatever reason wanted to know what it was like for Grandma to have had her hair set, or for Grandpa to have worn a military uniform in some forgotten war, a simple dial and probe could select that information without any off-subject rambling.  No longer would any fresh-faced child with a pad and pencil have to complete a class assignment by asking a random elder what life was like back when they were "alive."  Who knows, maybe the dial-a-memory technique could even be effective against Alzheimer's;  all the stored bits and pieces of a lifetime of activity sloshing around in the elderly brain could be retrieved only if and when the stimulus was applied.  Down with unconstructed patter connected only to the past.  On to......