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the link in the description. In the future, we may be able to control machines with our

minds, though that may open the door to others being able to use machines to control our minds.

So today we'll be looking at BCI, Brain Computer Interface, and updating on the progress

that's been made since we last looked at the topic in mind machine interfaces a couple years

back, and we're going to dig into how BCI will work, beyond the usual

assumptions of us just jamming wires into someone's head. We'll look at the impact BCIs

are going to have as they roll out over the next couple decades. Make no mistake either,

these are coming and sooner than later. Your ability to think stuff directly into computer,

and vice versa, computers thinking

stuff directly into you.

Or more directly anyway, as I often mention discussion on this topic, technological

telepathy or brain-to-brain interfaces is something we already have.

You send a signal from your brain to your finger to hit a key which inputs into a computer

that does something and displays that effect to a monitor which transmits to your eye,

which your brain then sees and decodes and interprets.

BCI is about cutting down on the steps or delays, and there are three primary ways that happens.

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