Just read an article that came up on my Google home page about the advances being made in neuroscience. Quite amazing - especially considering what might be possible in just ten or twenty years when I might actually start acknowledging that I'm growing old.
One day, a machine will outsmart its maker
IN ONE of William Gibson’s early mind-bending stories, the protagonist suddenly needs to fly a jump jet. In the cockpit, he finds his employer has thoughtfully stashed a biochip containing all the necessary piloting skills for him to plug into his own nervous system. While your correspondent applauded the idea at the time, he nevertheless dismissed it as pure science-fiction. Today, he’s not so sure.
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