The future based on Neuralink's monkey pong
The future based on Neuralink's monkey pong
Imagine walking into an office building and seeing hundreds of employees staring at monitors and completing all their work without ever using their hands for a mouse or a keyboard.
Imagine walking into an office building and seeing hundreds of employees staring at monitors and completing all their work without ever using their hands for a mouse or a keyboard. It'll be an almost silent floor, no keyboard tappings or people speaking. This is what the future would be when Neuralink's BCI (Brain Computer Interface) becomes successful.
Your phone won't need typing because you would be able to look at it and operate it. Who likes typing on smartphones anyways?
Let's push this..
Neuralink + cellphone
Combine Neuralink's BCI implant and a cellphone transmitter/receiver.
At this point, would you even need a phone? Your brain implant could directly connect with something akin to our current cellphone networks and allow you to communicate with someone across the world directly using their own implant.
Let's push this a little more
Implants accept inputs
Implants don't just 'output' actions but also have inputs.
How would that work? Our brains have evolved to only process information from our biological sensory organs - eyes for sight, ears for sound, skin for touch and movement, tongue for taste, nose for smell. What does it mean to be able to input data into the human brain without going through our biological sensory inputs? One way would be to simulate the sensory organs. So you 'hear' something that isn't actually playing. Or you smell something .. that doesn't actually exist. Or you see something with your eyes closed ... and your brain processes it and saves it.
Let's push this further..
Implants can upload data
Implants can upload data to your brain without having to go through your sensory organs.
Our brains rely on our 'biological' sensory inputs to ingest information: eyes for sight, nose for smell, ears for hearing and most of our body (except the brain itself) for touch and pain. The other way, which is really difficult to imagine is uploading data directly into the brain without simulating it for one of our sensory organs. Remember how Neo learnt KungFu in Matrix? They plugged the electrode into his spine, and in a few seconds he said "I know KungFu". That would become a superpower for humans. This would involve breaking a sort of barrier and reaching into the inners of the brain so data can be saved without having to be ingested via our biological sensory inputs.
Finite storage: But the capacity of the brain cannot be infinite. Let's saw you did teach someone KungFu in a few seconds .. then what did they forget? Is that predictable? When you learnt KungFu, could you forget the name of your spouse? That won't be good! We don't (yet) understand the implication of technologies like this because these situations aren't possible in real life at the moment. And now we're stepping towards the edge of what we know about mammalian brains.