Let's talk about the promise and the danger of brain-computer interfaces and how harnessing

electricity in our body may change everything about the way we live. That conversation with an

award-winning science journalist is coming up right after this. Welcome to Big Technology

podcast, a show for cool-headed, nuanced conversation of the tech world and beyond.

We're joined today by science journalist Sally Adi, author of the great book,

We Are Electric Inside the 200-year hunt for our body's bioelectric code in what the future holds.

We're going to talk about brain computer interfaces and all the crazy things electricity does in our body.

I'm excited for this one. Sally, welcome to the show.

Thank you so much for having me, Alex. It's nice to be here. Great to be here. It's always fun to speak with authors of books who I've read in depth. And I read yours in depth while I was preparing to speak

with Nolan Arbaugh, the first Nerling patient. Just trying to figure out like, how is this guy

actually able to control a

computer with his brain? Seems to me like that would be physically impossible. But actually,

as I went into your book and read it for prep for that interview, I realized that the role of

electricity in the body is crazy. It can do everything from help us potentially regenerate limbs. It can, you know,

potentially be a solution to cancer. I might be over billing it. But it does unbelievable things.

And I just thought when I finished the book, I had to get you on the show to talk to you about all

this and bring this story to our readers because it turns out our listeners really because it turns out the

brain computer interface within nolan arbaugh's brain is just the tip of the iceberg so to

speak so let me ask you uh just a broad question to begin with i mean i am kind of stunned uh as a novice to

this that electricity plays a big role in the body.

I was like you have the sort of the bio side of things and then you have the digital side of things.

The digital's electricity.

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