Cindy: If you have a cure for something, then so much of what Cindy is describing is no longer necessary. Because the body now handles it itself. So that's a foreseeable future as well. Neil: Yeah, in a sense. But if they- I didn't mean to express sympathy for you guys being out of a job. That was not my intent here.
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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