{"id":29190,"date":"2016-08-22T05:33:09","date_gmt":"2016-08-22T12:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/the-tiny-brain-chip-that-may-supercharge-your-mind"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:22:36","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:22:36","slug":"the-tiny-brain-chip-that-may-supercharge-your-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/the-tiny-brain-chip-that-may-supercharge-your-mind","title":{"rendered":"The Tiny Brain Chip That May Supercharge Your Mind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-tiny-brain-chip-that-may-supercharge-your-mind.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>How will we interact with the intelligent machines of the future? If you\u2019re asking Bryan Johnson, founder of startup <a href=\"http:\/\/kernel.co\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kernel<\/a>, he\u2019ll tell you those machines should be implanted inside our brains.<\/p>\n<p>His team is working with top neuroscientists to build a tiny brain chip\u2014also known as a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.the-scientist.com\/?articles.view\/articleNo\/41324\/title\/Neuroprosthetics\/\" target=\"_blank\">neuroprosthetic <\/a>\u2014to help people with disease-related brain damage. In the long term, though, Johnson sees the product applicable to anyone who wants a bit of a brain boost.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, some might flag this technology as yet another invention leading us toward a future where <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/s\/531726\/technology-and-inequality\/\" target=\"_blank\">technology just helps the privileged get further in life<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/news.singularityhub.com\/2016\/08\/17\/the-tiny-brain-chip-that-may-supercharge-your-mind\/?utm_content=buffer46ca3&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook-hub&utm_campaign=buffer#.V7dbF5MrK36\">http:\/\/news.singularityhub.com\/2016\/08\/17\/the-tiny-brain-chi...7dbF5MrK36<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How will we interact with the intelligent machines of the future? If you\u2019re asking Bryan Johnson, founder of startup Kernel, he\u2019ll tell you those machines should be implanted inside our brains. His team is working with top neuroscientists to build a tiny brain chip\u2014also known as a neuroprosthetic \u2014to help people with disease-related brain damage. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":411,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1523,1499,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-computing","category-cyborgs","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29190","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\/411"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29190"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66499,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29190\/revisions\/66499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}