Kristin Scott

I have a former student, Paul Sernatinger, that sends me very cool links every now and then, and he recently sent me some really interesting ones. I was particularly struck by how researchers at Osaka University, in Japan, for example are in the process of developing robotic body parts that will be controlled by thoughts through the use of electrode sheets placed directly on the brain — creating a brain-computer interface (or BCI). This marks some very interesting developments that, until recently, have only been imagined in the realm of science fiction. But then, science fiction has done an astounding job of predicting a number of events.