"I think it's like so many things. There's probably a potential to do bad, and there's also great potential to do good," he says. "Frankly, I'm hoping that elementary education gets rid of racism in this country rather than having to put electrodes in everyone's brain."
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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