Long the stuff of science fiction, technology that can directly tap into, augment, and connect human brains is becoming science fact.  And that means big changes for all of us.

Consider what we’ve already done – getting data in and out of the human brain:

-          Hearing – At least 200,000 people alive today use a cochlear implant.  A cochlear implant looks like a hearing aid, but it works quite differently.  It takes sound waves in the environment and transforms them into nerve impulses to the auditory nerve.  In creating it, we’ve tapped into and partially decoded the way the nervous system represents sound.

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