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Podcast: The Future of Everything
Episode: Krishna Shenoy: How brain-computer connections could end paralysis
Description: Whether by injury or disease, paralysis has afflicted humans through the ages.Only now have science and technology converged to a point where scientists can contemplate a day when computers and the human mind can communicate directly to restore a certain degree of independence to people with debilitating spinal injuries and other physical conditions that impede or prevent movement.Electrical engineer Krishna Shenoy is an expert in such brain-computer interfaces and has built machinery by which humans can control the movement of computer cursors with mere thoughts. Using small chips implanted in the brain itself...