Connecting our Brain to Machines: the Final Barrier? - OpenMind

If all the information available on Google fit on a USB flash-drive, what would happen if we could plug it directly into the brain? What if we could translate our brainwaves into complete texts, or could connect ourselves to a machine to multiply our mental capacities? Although these examples are still science fiction, the technology that tries to make them possible is not. The connection will be achieved through the so-called brain-to-computer interface.Credit: Natural Science Foundation Javier Mínguez and Luis Montesano, researchers from BitBrain, a company specializing in applied neuro-technologies, explain to OpenMind that "it is not that we are close to connecting our brains to technologies to interact with the exterior. It is already a reality."