![]() It's a new twist on an old idea: in the 17th century an erudite Catholic bishop and French Academy member named Pierre Daniel Huet had a servant follow him around with a book to read aloud to him during meals and breaks and thus avoid lost time. Hacking your brain in 3 unintuitive steps Well, it turns out you can use speech synthesis technology (AKA TTS or Text-to-Speech) to hack the equivalent of a USB port for your brain, right now. A practical brain machine interface you can use right nowīack in the mid 1990s, when I was teenager I remember spending a lot of time speculating whether the technological singularity Vernor Vinge predicted would be driven by human IA ( Intelligence Amplification), non-human AI ( Artificial Intelligence) or both.Īs a lifelong fan of the human race I preferred the IA route and dreamed of a day when we would have William Gibsonesque brain machine interfaces (e.g., ala Count Zero) that would augment our brains, make us smarter and let us gobble up all the knowledge we wanted at superhuman speed. It's changed mine more than any other technological innovation since I got my first modem back in 1993 and discovered the Internet a year later. Tell your friends and we might change the world. It's the best piece of technology advice I have to give. If I could only get one idea out into the wider world this would be it. Today I decided it was time I shared a unique, literally mind bending experience I've been having. The future is already here - it's just not very evenly distributed.
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