People, Personas, and Politics 35 – Mental Pacemakers
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen and Rick Rosner
Publication (Outlet/Website): People, Personas, and Politics
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2017/04/23
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Rick Rosner: People with Parkinson’s Disease can have mental pacemakers to provide some of the lost function due to the symptoms and consequences of Parkinson’s. They aren’t directly helping thinking, but they are providing support for mental processes.
There is research that shows that if you run an electrical field through the brain then thinking becomes more efficient for a little while. Somebody will find way to make that a wearable technology. One of the big guys in software says we are 10 years away from effective brain-to brain interfaces.
We are seeing some of that stuff, where people who have lost limbs can think their way into controlling replacement limbs, which is via interfaces that are not too cumbersome. Those interfaces will become less cumbersome.
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