A Human's Guide to the Future by Dr Jordan Nguyen

Author:Dr Jordan Nguyen
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Pan Macmillan Australia
Published: 2020-11-15T00:00:00+00:00

With millions if not billions of years

of creating, changing, updating, evolving,

nature inspires our most sophisticated inventions.

So let’s guide those inventions to return the favour,

and use them to repair our natural world.

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IS TECHNOLOGICAL TELEKINESIS REALLY POSSIBLE?

I WANTED TO BUILD A MIND-CONTROLLED WHEELCHAIR

‘AHHH! IT WORKS!’ I yell out in excitement, but no words can actually describe how I’m feeling in this moment. It’s February 2008 and I’ve just connected mind control over my smart wheelchair, TIM, with a custom brain–computer interface (BCI). I’ve associated three different thoughts with three different actions and used the distinct brainwave changes when you open and close your eyes as a method of confirming desired actions. These thoughts are all mental tasks synonymous with IQ tests, like arithmetic, writing and figure rotation. The parietal lobe of the brain works hard on these types of tasks, so I have some of my BCI electrodes connected to this area on the scalp, as well as to the occipital lobe at the back of the head, which is responsible for visual processing of all the data our eyes send to it.

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