Mind Control
November 20th, 2009 by ComputerBob
If you’re a long-time reader of this Journal and you have a really, really good memory, you may remember that I’ve mentioned it before: In the summer of 1986, while completing my Masters degree, I wrote a paper on the future of education, in which I predicted that scientists would eventually develop a brain-to-computer interface and human-implantable memory chips. Those inventions would give people several new abilities that would completely revolutionize educational theory and practice, incuding the ability to “recall” information that they had never known before, the ability to “remember” experiences that they had never actually had. and the ability to communicate with others by using a type of pseudo-mental telepathy that utilized wireless telephone technologies.
Ever since then, I’ve watched as each of my predictions have gotten closer and closer to reality.
Here’s the latest that I’ve seen: “By the year 2020, you won’t need a keyboard and mouse to control your computer, say Intel Corp. researchers. Instead, users will open documents and surf the Web using nothing more than their brain waves.”
I’m betting that, in labs all over the world, even more researchers are doing similar work, but in secret, and in the opposite direction — to be able to use a computer to control a human brain.
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