We are at the dawn of being able to control computers, TVs, or any modern appliance merely via thoughts.

Originally shared by Singularity 2045

We are at the dawn of being able to control computers, TVs, or any modern appliance merely via thoughts. No remote control, no mice, no typing on keys.

Already the BBC is testing this #braincomputerinterface #BCI technology, PC Mag reported (18 June 2015).

PC Mag wrote: “The electroencephalography (EEG) brainwave-reading headset appears to require fewer moving parts than other wearables, but much more attentiveness. With one small sensor resting on the user's forehead and another clipped to the ear, the device can measure electrical activity in the brain.”

PC Mag added: “BBC iPlayer already allows voice control on the Xbox One. But the "Mind Control TV" device takes things to a whole new level. When tested among 10 BBC staffers, the internal prototype proved successful.” http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2486335,00.asp

#mindcontrol
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2486335,00.asp

#technology #future

#technology   #future  

Originally shared by David Fuchs

Mind-to-mind thought talking possible by 2030, scientist says

Today we enjoy basic conversations with our smart phone, desktop PC, games console, TV and soon, our car; but voice recognition, many believe, should not be viewed as an endgame technology. Although directing electronics with voice and gestures may be considered state-of-the-art today, we will soon be controlling entertainment and communications equipment not by talking or waving; but just by thinking!

http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/pelletier20140310

http://www.ted.com/talks/tan_le_a_headset_that_reads_your_brainwaves

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2012/jan/31/mind-reading-program-brain-words

#BCI   #Braincomputerinterface   #cat  

Discarding your body for better #Space functioning is incredibly primitive technology.

Originally shared by Singularity 2045

Discarding your body for better #Space functioning is incredibly primitive technology. It is comparable to mounting a floppy disk reader in your head a few years before wireless flash brain interfaces #BCI are invented. Future exoskeletons will be so ultra-high tech you won't even be aware you are wearing one.

Yes in the short term this primitive tech may be useful for early adopters, but in the longer term there will be no mass uptake until the tech becomes ultra-sophisticated, which means you won't need to be a disembodied brain to do anything.

The Daily Mail wrote regarding professor Warwick: "He said that we could one day send a vehicle to an alien planet with a human brain inside."

And: "He believes we could slow global warming by upgrading our bodies to be more environmentally friendly."

LOL, if you can send a brain you can send a body, or if you send a brain the brain will soon be overtaken by quicker spaceships carrying entire human bodies, subsequently invented due to accelerating technology. Furthermore if you can be a brain without a body you will also likely have the technology to reverse global warming.

The Daily Mail added: "He thinks that our current incarnation in skin and and bone may not even survive that much longer on our own planet, let alone others."

Warwick's views are comparable to rushing to buy a #Betamax video recorder a few months before they are discontinued, or buying HD DVD just before Blue Ray became the leader.

Motherboard Vice wrote: "Nanotechnology presents a second possibility for robotic enhancement, by augmenting ourselves from the inside out, rather than the outside in. Again, we're not talking about a cosmic cure-all, in which ingesting nanobots makes us 100 percent Kryptonian (if only). But this line of inquiry could be promising for warding off diseases—especially cancers brought on by exposure to solar radiation, which poses a big problem for would-be Martian pioneers." http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/be-your-own-spaceship-how-we-can-adapt-human-bodies-for-alien-worlds

The reality is humans will soon invent ways to stop all radiation, already we are starting to understand the problem (our understanding will increase massively via forthcoming Strong-AI): https://plus.google.com/u/0/112564607617850290297/posts/FDv7CGuenGg
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2392918/Who-needs-body-Experts-researching-day-live-BRAIN-far-away-planets.html