COSTA RICAN TIMES
Neuroscientists and cutting edge computer developers are in the early stages of building a “bridge between flesh and chip.” Chillingly, promoters speak of a “brave new world” of thought-controlled machines–in the opposite way that Aldous Huxley meant the term. Just what are the implications of directly linking the brain with the computer?
Machines are already outpacing the speed of thought. We are being told, “our bodies are getting in the way,” because the brain-eye connection is so much faster than the brain-hand capability. What is the ostensible solution? Hook the brain up directly to computers by splicing silicon chips with neuronal tissue, and abracadabra, we’re one with our machines!
It is already possible, through electrodes attached to the skull, to directly mentally control, to a rudimentary degree,
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