Will it be limited to just your motor skills or will it have applications for neural damage in the brain? senses or hearing or even more importantly, augmentation? How long before we're going to go? I wouldn't know. And so the answer is we're making steady progress. But we don't know. There may be jumps in technology that we haven't even imagined yet that are going to be fundamentally important to what we're trying to do.
Are we nearing the singularity? Neil deGrasse Tyson and co-hosts Chuck Nice and Gary O’Reilly learn about brain machine interfaces and prosthetics you can control with your mind, with biomedical engineer Dr. Cindy Chestek and neurosurgeon Dr. Parag Patil
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