If we could also teleport, that'd be great. And then we wouldn't need Perog anymore to open the skull. If it's go down the list, you know, okay. The good news is that the lifespan is measured in years. You don't want to be seeing a neurosurgeon every five, seven years. Seven years is not a, it's not a good run. It's traumatic to have to go through that amount of surgery,. particularly in that part of the body.
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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