{"id":57176,"date":"2017-05-03T07:02:31","date_gmt":"2017-05-03T14:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/darpa-is-planning-to-hack-the-human-brain-to-let-us-upload-skills"},"modified":"2017-05-03T07:02:31","modified_gmt":"2017-05-03T14:02:31","slug":"darpa-is-planning-to-hack-the-human-brain-to-let-us-upload-skills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/darpa-is-planning-to-hack-the-human-brain-to-let-us-upload-skills","title":{"rendered":"DARPA Is Planning to Hack the Human Brain to Let Us \u201cUpload\u201d Skills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/darpa-is-planning-to-hack-the-human-brain-to-let-us-upload-skills.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The DARPA Targeted Neuroplasticity Training (TNT) program is exploring ways to speed up skill acquisition by activating synaptic plasticity. If the program succeeds, downloadable learning that happens in a flash may be the result.<\/p>\n<p>In March 2016, DARPA \u2014 the U.S. military\u2019s \u201cmad science\u201d branch \u2014 announced their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.darpa.mil\/program\/targeted-neuroplasticity-training\">Targeted Neuroplasticity Training<\/a> (TNT) program. The TNT program aims to explore various safe neurostimulation methods for activating <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/subjects\/synaptic-plasticity\">synaptic plasticity<\/a>, which is the brain\u2019s ability to alter the connecting points between neurons \u2014 a requirement for learning. DARPA hopes that building up that ability by subjecting the nervous system to a kind of workout regimen will enable the brain to learn more quickly.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/darpa-is-planning-to-hack-the-human-brain-to-let-us-upload-skills\/\">https:\/\/futurism.com\/darpa-is-planning-to-hack-the-human-bra...ad-skills\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The DARPA Targeted Neuroplasticity Training (TNT) program is exploring ways to speed up skill acquisition by activating synaptic plasticity. If the program succeeds, downloadable learning that happens in a flash may be the result. In March 2016, DARPA \u2014 the U.S. military\u2019s \u201cmad science\u201d branch \u2014 announced their Targeted Neuroplasticity Training (TNT) program. The TNT [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,9,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-military","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57176","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\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}