Podcast 23 Why we should link our brain to our computer

Randall van Poelvoorde on Tech & Robots

Today, I want to discuss with you the connection between the human brain and computers. Some of you might be wondering if this is even possible. A computer is something entirely different from the human brain, right? And that’s true, but there’s a reason why we can still make them communicate with each other. Both our brains and our computers operate with electrical signals. The communication between different brain cells in our brain happens with tiny electrical impulses—actual electrical connections. And of course, you already know that this is how computers work. The first thing we need to do is establish a connection between the brain and the computer. This is currently done in a rather primitive way. A small piece of the skull is removed, and an implant is placed, through which tiny wires connect to the brain. So far, this has been done with two people by the company Neuralink, and if you cover it with the patient’s hair, you can barely see it. Meanwhile, new technologies are being developed to make the connection in a more elegant way without drilling, but not much is known about that yet. I suspect that in about 25 years, tiny robots, so-called nanobots, will be injected into your bloodstream and will then wirelessly make the connections in your brain.

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