The human brain
remains biology’s great, unconquered wilderness, and while the idea of meshing
the raw power of the human mind with electronic stimulus and responsiveness has long existed in
both science fiction and — to some degree — in reality, we likely won’t be
controlling our devices with a thought in 2020 as Intel has predicted.
While it’s currently possible to implant a
chip in the brain and even get one to respond to or stimulate gross neural
activity, we simply don’t understand the brain’s nuance well enough to create
the kind of interface that would let you channel surf by simply thinking about
it.
“Neural communications are both chemical and electrical,” Liebhold says.
“And we have no idea about how that works, particularly in the semantics of
neural communication. So yeah, somebody might be able to put electronics inside
somebody’s cranium, but I personally believe it’s only going to be nominally
useful for very, very narrow therapeutic applications.”
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