When will brain-computer interface become available to everyone ?

[steve2470]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain%E2%80%93computer_interface

ETA: If you consider this toy BCI, it's already here: http://www.necomimi.com/

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[jberryhill]

1. As soon as most people find a brain

I wouldn't hold my breath waiting.

[hobbit709]

7. Beat me to it.

[NuclearDem]

2. Immortality FTW.

[TheBlackAdder]

5. I've never met a piece of electronics that outlasted me without a failure somewhere.

Sure, there might be old telephone switching systems, but they all failed at some point.

Cell phones constantly get humped up, computers, and any other sophisticated electronics component.

Can you imaging if your brain chip does a POST while walking down the street?


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My son thinks it could be cool to be a cyborg for the same reasons. Then I mention about circuitry failures, oxidation, corrosion, shorts, electrical failures, power spikes, EMF, natural brittleness over time, decomposition, eventual body rejection, etc. Just to protect from EMF, requires toxic MuMetal or something similar, and that add to weight to prevent. That get's him thinking.

Then there is that news article about how cells can only reproduce so many times before they die.

So, whether or not you are completely organic, a cyborg, or a total machine... failure is immenent.

[NuclearDem]

13. Oh just go and rain on my parade why don't you!

[2naSalit]

3. Hopefully never. n/t

[HappyMe]

4. Yeah, this is just what we need.

[TheBlackAdder]

6. Can you imagine if some Jackhole hacks your brain and controls you?

Or the government taps into your head and records your thoughts.

[hobbit709]

8. Isn't that what happens to Fox viewers?

[kentauros]

16. Something like this, you mean?

[font size="4"]Ghost in the Shell - Stand Alone Complex[/font]

[Taitertots]

9. Already exists.

http://www.ted.com/talks/tan_le_a_headset_that_reads_your_brainwaves?language=en

[steve2470]

14. thanks for info! nt

[Newest Reality]

10. Seems likely...

There are advances in technology that suggest it is possible.

However, too bad the title of the poll included "everyone". I doubt that everyone in our dystopian future will get one unless it has the capacity to control them and deliver rewards and punishments for their behavior. Otherwise, the proles will not partake and the elite will have a new interface for gathering wealth and plundering the planet, or what's left of it.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

11. It's rather frightening to think what will happen when the likes of Sarah or Dubya try it.

[leveymg]

12. Question is: When will it be mandatory for everyone?

About the time that it becomes available.

[steve2470]

15. EPOC headset

Introducing New EPOC+ Scientific contextual EEG

In addition to the same functionality of the EPOC headset, EPOC+ comes with 9-axis inertial motion sensors, Bluetooth Smart and user-configurable option, enabling additional applications.

http://emotiv.com/

799.00 for every additional headset

http://emotiv.com/store/epoc-detail/

[meaculpa2011]

17. If the Krell could not control their thoughts,...

what makes anyone believe we will?

[Bluenorthwest]

18. Sometime after everyone has computer and internet access, which they currently do not have...

"The United Nations this week released a report that says nearly 3 billion people will have access to the Internet by the end of 2014.

That means 60% of the world's population -- about 4.2 billion -- will remain unconnected."


http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-60-world-population-3-billion-internet-2014-20140507-story.html

[steve2470]

19. excellent point nt