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Culture & Merging Our Brains With The Internet
Most of us look at the advancements in connecting our brains to the internet and other digital technologies with a mix of squeamishness, fascination and utter fear. It’s long been a trope of science-fiction, but is becoming reality. What does this mean to us as a culture and society?
Today, we’re in the early phases of awareness when it comes to these technologies and they too, are in the very early phases of experimentation, but the competition to achieve viability with what is called Brain Computer Interface (BCI) is intense, if only within a small group of organisations.
Neuralink recently announced the successful installation of their technology into a mans brain and that he’s doing quite alright. Other companies say they’re more advanced and better. Australian researchers claim they’re miles ahead of Neuralink and may well be.
These technologies are advancing and no doubt Artificial Intelligence tools will play a role, especially in the interface software. And there are good uses for some of these BCI tools. They may help those with complete paralysis or limitations in speaking to fully engage with society in meaningful ways.
BCIs are among a suite of technologies that are in play to merge together what today are largely siloed technologies. Smartphones put the internet in our…
