{"id":19555,"date":"2015-11-24T03:50:17","date_gmt":"2015-11-24T11:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/hacking-the-brain-restoring-lost-abilities-with-the-latest-neurotechnologies"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:19:04","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:19:04","slug":"hacking-the-brain-restoring-lost-abilities-with-the-latest-neurotechnologies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/hacking-the-brain-restoring-lost-abilities-with-the-latest-neurotechnologies","title":{"rendered":"Hacking the Brain \u2014 Restoring Lost Abilities With the Latest Neurotechnologies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/hacking-the-brain-restoring-lost-abilities-with-the-latest-neurotechnologies.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A few weeks ago, I wrote about <a href=\"http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2015\/10\/12\/ray-kurzweils-wildest-prediction-nanobots-will-plug-our-brains-into-the-web-by-the-2030s\/\">Ray Kurzweil\u2019s wild prediction<\/a> that in the 2030s, nanobots will connect our brains to the cloud, merging biology with the digital world.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s talk about what\u2019s happening today.<\/p>\n<p>Over the past few decades, billions of dollars have been poured into three areas of research: neuroprosthetics, brain-computer interfaces and optogenetics.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2015\/11\/23\/hacking-the-brain-restoring-lost-abilities-with-the-latest-neurotechnologies\/?utm_content=buffer9c0da&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago, I wrote about Ray Kurzweil\u2019s wild prediction that in the 2030s, nanobots will connect our brains to the cloud, merging biology with the digital world. Let\u2019s talk about what\u2019s happening today. Over the past few decades, billions of dollars have been poured into three areas of research: neuroprosthetics, brain-computer interfaces and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1523,1499,412,4,47,2018],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-computing","category-cyborgs","category-genetics","category-nanotechnology","category-neuroscience","category-ray-kurzweil"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19555","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19555"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69148,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19555\/revisions\/69148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}