{"id":113115,"date":"2020-09-16T23:22:19","date_gmt":"2020-09-17T06:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/the-brain-computer-interface-is-coming-and-we-are-so-not-ready-for-it"},"modified":"2020-09-16T23:22:19","modified_gmt":"2020-09-17T06:22:19","slug":"the-brain-computer-interface-is-coming-and-we-are-so-not-ready-for-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/the-brain-computer-interface-is-coming-and-we-are-so-not-ready-for-it","title":{"rendered":"The brain-computer interface is coming, and we are so not ready for it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/76lIQtE8oDY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Are you ready?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cif you were the type of geek, growing up, who enjoyed taking apart mechanical things and putting them back together again, who had your own corner of the garage or the basement filled with electronics and parts of electronics that you endlessly reconfigured, who learned to solder before you could ride a bike, your dream job would be at the Intelligent Systems Center of the Applied Physics Laboratory at Johns Hopkins University. Housed in an indistinct, cream-colored building in a part of Maryland where you can still keep a horse in your back yard, the ISC so elevates geekdom that the first thing you see past the receptionist\u2019s desk is a paradise for the kind of person who isn\u2019t just thrilled by gadgets, but who is compelled to understand how they work.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Then there are the legal questions: Can the cops make you wear one? What if they have a warrant to connect your brain to a computer? How about a judge? Your commanding officer? How do you keep your Google Nest from sending light bulb ads to your brain every time you think the room is too dark?<\/p>\n<p>A wearable device that can decode the voice in your head is a way\u2019s off yet, said Jack Gallant, professor of psychology at University of California, Berkeley and a leading expert in cognitive neuroscience. But he also said, \u201cScience marches on. There\u2019s no fundamental physics reason that someday we\u2019re not going to have a non-invasive brain-machine interface. It\u2019s just a matter of time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dAnd we have to manage that eventuality.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/the-brain-computer-interface-is-coming-and-we-are-so-not-ready-for-it\">Continue reading \u201cThe brain-computer interface is coming, and we are so not ready for it\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are you ready? \u201cif you were the type of geek, growing up, who enjoyed taking apart mechanical things and putting them back together again, who had your own corner of the garage or the basement filled with electronics and parts of electronics that you endlessly reconfigured, who learned to solder before you could ride a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":461,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1496,47,219,1977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-law","category-neuroscience","category-physics","category-wearables"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/461"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}