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The Dramatic High-Tech Race to Merge Minds and Machines
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
October 2015
On Sale: October 20, 2015
ISBN: 0374139849
EAN: 9780374139841
Kindle: B00VE3L7HC
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Fiction
The gripping and revelatory story of the dramatic race to
merge the human brain with machines Leading neuroscience researchers are racing to unlock the
secrets of the mind. On the cusp of decoding brain signals
that govern motor skills, they are developing miraculous
technologies to enable paraplegics and wounded soldiers to
move prosthetic limbs, and the rest of us to manipulate
computers and other objects through thought alone. These
fiercely competitive scientists are vying for Defense
Department and venture capital funding, prestige, and great
wealth. Part life-altering cure, part science fiction, part military
dream, these cutting-edge brain-computer interfaces promise
to improve lives--but also hold the potential to augment
soldiers' combat capabilities. In The Brain Electric,
Malcolm Gay follows the dramatic emergence of these
technologies, taking us behind the scenes into the operating
rooms, start-ups, and research labs where the future is
unfolding. With access to many of the field's top
scientists, Gay illuminates this extraordinary race--where
science, medicine, profit, and war converge--for the first
time. But this isn't just a story about technology. At the
heart of this research is a group of brave, vulnerable
patient-volunteers whose lives are given new meaning through
participating in these experiments. The Brain
Electric asks us to rethink our relationship to
technology, our bodies, even consciousness
itself--challenging our assumptions about what it means to
be human.
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