Would upgrading your brain be too good to refuse?

14-Dec-2015

Key points from article :

PAST:

2008 – BrainGate patient controls computer cursor using a chip embedded into his motor cortex.

PRESENT:

BrainGate patient controls multi-jointed robotic arm.

patients with extreme depression undergo “deep brain stimulation” (DBS)

IMMININENT:

Pilots control more features of increasingly complex aircraft.

Psychologically “normal” people enhance their day-to-day happiness.

FUTURE:

Creation of new, rich, unique emotional experiences that humans are presently not privy to.

controlling extra limbs with the same intuitive dexterity as our own hands and fingers.