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Is The Brain The Ultimate Computer Interface?

Event Interactive 2010
Format Panel
Organizer Christie Nicholson – Scientific American
Description Will we be able to jack into the brain and upload helicopter instructions, like in The Matrix? We already have the technology to control a prosthetic arm or Twitter with thoughts alone. Dishes of neurons can control a robot. And scientists have created a working artificial memory chip in rats.
Questions
Answered
  1. How close are we to enhancing humans with an ability to control machines?
  2. What current technologies of "jacking into the brain" exist and what is coming in the next 2-5 years that will affect interactive businesses?
  3. How much power does the government have over the research (DARPA is a major funder of a lot of this research)?
  4. What does a human-computer interface mean for the computing industry? What does nanocomputing have to offer in this area?
  5. What ethical issues surround brain-computer interfaces or implanted chips in the brain? What are the possibilities for hackers?
  6. What are the positive medical outcomes of controlling machines/materials with our thoughts?
  7. How do scientists get brain waves to speak to a machine?
  8. Will we put a microchips like an artificial memory bank in our brain?
  9. Even if we don't make it to memory chips in human brains, researchers are trying to crack the neural code right now? What are the implications of that?
  10. Is this sort of progression wrong? Inevitable? What are the implications for what it means to be human?
Level Intermediate
Category Content, Government and Technology, New Technology / Next Generation, Other / Out There, User Experience
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