How Brain-Computer Interfaces Could Change Lives

WSJ Tech News Briefing

The Wall Street Journal

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🗓️ 31 October 2024

⏱️ 11 minutes

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With brain-computer interfaces, people with physical disabilities could one day control computers with just their thoughts, according to the co-founders of Precision Neuroscience. The company is developing an implant that could interpret and transmit electrical signals on the surface of the brain into actions on a screen. CEO Michael Mager and Chief Science Officer Benjamin Rapoport spoke with WSJ reporter Rolfe Winkler at WSJ Tech Live about how the technology works and the ways it could transform peoples’ lives. Danny Lewis hosts. Sign up for the WSJ's free Technology newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:14.4	Welcome to Tech News Briefing.
0:21.1	It's Thursday, October 31st. I'm Danny Lewis for the Wall Street Journal.
0:25.8	Have you ever looked at your computer screen and wondered what it would feel like to
0:29.2	operate it with just your brain? Well, several companies, including precision
0:34.0	neuroscience, are working on implants that can let people interact with
0:37.5	computers just by thinking about it, and giving some people with
0:41.3	physical disabilities new ways to interact with the digital world.
0:45.9	At W.S.J. Tech Live last week, Michael Major,
0:48.8	precision neuroscience co-founder and CEO, and Benjamin Rappaport, the company's co-founder and
0:54.2	chief science officer, talked about how this technology could change people's lives.
0:58.4	Just ahead, we'll have highlights from their conversation with our reporter Rolf Winkler.
1:04.0	Ben, Michael.
1:08.0	So brain computer interfaces. these are very exciting. What do they do?
1:16.0	Well, a brain computer interface is a brain implant that allows you to have direct control of a computer or external device using just your thoughts.
1:26.0	Okay, and what are these going to be for?
1:30.0	Who's going to use them?
1:32.0	Well, people whose brains are functional, but the connection between the brain and the body
1:38.0	has been disrupted either by a disease or an injury or the first users.
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