{"id":179496,"date":"2023-12-30T02:22:21","date_gmt":"2023-12-30T08:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/welcome-to-the-cyborg-era-brain-implants-transformed-lives-this-year"},"modified":"2023-12-30T02:22:21","modified_gmt":"2023-12-30T08:22:21","slug":"welcome-to-the-cyborg-era-brain-implants-transformed-lives-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/welcome-to-the-cyborg-era-brain-implants-transformed-lives-this-year","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to the Cyborg Era: Brain Implants Transformed Lives This Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/welcome-to-the-cyborg-era-brain-implants-transformed-lives-this-year2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This year gave rise to an incredible mix of brain implants that can record, decode, and alter brain activity.<\/p>\n<p>It sounds like d\u00e9j\u00e0 vu\u2014brain-machine interfaces also lived rent free in my head in <a href=\"https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2022\/12\/28\/from-wild-to-weird-the-top-5-biotech-trends-of-2022\/\">last year\u2019s roundup,<\/a> but for good reason. Neuroscientists are building increasingly sophisticated and flexible electronic chips that seamlessly integrate machine intelligence with our brains and spinal cords at record-breaking speed. What was previously science fiction\u2014for example, helping paralyzed people regain their ability to walk, swim, and kayak\u2014is now reality.<\/p>\n<p>This year, brain implants further transformed people\u2019s lives. The not-so-secret sauce? AI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year gave rise to an incredible mix of brain implants that can record, decode, and alter brain activity. It sounds like d\u00e9j\u00e0 vu\u2014brain-machine interfaces also lived rent free in my head in last year\u2019s roundup, but for good reason. Neuroscientists are building increasingly sophisticated and flexible electronic chips that seamlessly integrate machine intelligence with [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1499,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-cyborgs","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179496","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179496\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}