"This is a really exciting time because as you can hear, technology is advancing," he says. "We don't know what the right answer is going to be ... but it's certainly not the only one" He adds that there are lots of different approaches and people are actively working on all of these.
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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