Neurosurgeon Eric Leuthardt from the University of Washington announced that a new era will come within the next decade, when many people will appear able to communicate with each other on a telepathic level using implants implanted in the brain.
According to Leuthardt, operations involving the implantation of various implants into the brain will become as commonplace as plastic surgery or tattooing the body. And the Washington surgeon is not alone in this. The famous Elon Musk is also developing a technology by which the human brain will be directly connected to a computer.
According to the Daily Mail, in the future there will be a whole group of "supermen" who, only with the help of their brain, will transmit messages to other people, as well as work with a computer.
In an interview with MIT Technology Review, Dr. Leuthardt said that "true mobile neural integration will occur," and that it will only be a matter of time before it happens.
"It will happen either in 10 years or in 100, but it will be a natural development of human history."
Neurosurgeon Eric Leuthardt not only performs brain surgery, but also writes science fiction novels. In one of them, called RedDevil 4, in human society, over 90% of people have computer technology built into the brain.
According to the doctor, modern technologies are developing at a breathtaking speed. Just 20 years ago, few people imagined that "the entire filling of a mobile phone could fit into a chip the size of a grain of rice."
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"The implant can be inserted into your brain in a minimally invasive way (through a tiny hole, no big incisions) and with it you can do all the necessary calculations, turning your brain into a computer interface."
Another person dreaming of a future where the human brain will be combined with a computer is the famous inventor Elon Musk. He is developing a very high bandwidth interface that he can work with by connecting his brain and the brain of a machine. To do this, Musk is developing technology for "neural lace" or "neuro-lace".
The essence of the neuro-lace technology is that with the help of many tiny electrodes implanted in the brain, it will be possible to stimulate brain activity and read it. Currently, scientists are actively using similar methods of activating brain activity, the most studied of which is tDCS (stimulation of certain areas of the head, and therefore the brain, with a weak current).
Such technology is used for cognitive and speech disorders, allowing patients to communicate with each other. Moreover, tDCS is often used by healthy people and even athletes to improve their efficiency and performance. But this technology has many disadvantages.
TDCS technology.
To achieve a long-term effect, stimulation must be carried out for several days in a row. During one course, the electrodes can be placed only in one position on the head, and accordingly stimulate the activity of only one brain function.
Due to the fact that the electrodes are placed on the surface of the head (that is, between the electrodes and the neurons lies the skull bone), and the current strength is very small, the effect on it is "blurred" and weak. The usual efficiency of neurostimulation does not exceed 20-30%.
Elon Musk offers a much more radical method. The electrodes must penetrate into the interior of the brain and connect directly to hundreds and thousands of neurons. This will provide a direct translation of the electrical activity of neurons into digital information, and, as a consequence, "direct access of the brain to the Internet" through a broadband channel.
In the case of successful implementation of "neural lace", a person is likely to 100% become what we call a cyborg today. However, there is a hypothesis that this is a necessary condition for the survival of mankind.