Miguel Nicolelis: Brain-to-brain communication has arrived. How we did it

You may remember neuroscientist Miguel Nicolelis - he built the brain-controlled exoskeleton that allowed a paralyzed man to kick the first ball of the 2014 World Cup. What’s he working on now? Building ways for two minds (rats and monkeys, for now) to send messages brain to brain. Watch to the end for an experiment that, as he says, will go to "the limit of your imagination."
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[@heliogabriel8125]

What a great research This guy makes me proud of being Brazilian, thanks He deserves one Nobel Prize

[@MouseCaneta]

Miguel Nicolelis is one of the most brilliant minds of our time, if not the most brilliant.

[@hoarfyt]

The scariest thing about this is the lack of awareness of politics, media and general public about it. I was waiting to see this being demonstrated during the world cup and was super excited about it even tho I'm not a sport's fan. When the thing was actually being displayed the local television quickly cut to show another inconsequential crap like the arrival of player's bus or something, neglecting what was happening there. It was a sad display of the state of affairs, when people are so entitled to science and technology that when such breakthrough happens, it is dismissed like if it's nothing.

[@bigfletch8]

From a conspiracy theorists pov, that is a plus. Those dictating what the billion were watching, didnt want it to be seen. Imagine if a zero point energy system had been deployed for all to see. Brainwashing the masses is more of a trickle process...but ironically, the net facilitates mass communication beyond those who would want us to be kept in the dark. Thats why so many dictatorships are trying to control it. Impossible, but that wont stop them trying to convince the masses.

[@markolukic7062]

its trye in y talk and solfer about 1,7month

[@carlossilva8087]

Yep, I remember, but this tells a lot about Brazillian economical ellite. What can we expect from a TV company that got money and power during dictactorship?! It is obvious now that part of Brazil’s problem is the lack of worries about issues that actually matter.

[@houcyouryou4970]

in chi na more than thousand or ten thousand people ，Being under constant silent attack, causing feeling hot and cold, sad and excited, because brain waves have no firewall, because they are Christians or people who have been demolished or people who maintain their basic rights, or retired soldiers, they are regarded as unstable factors, in Chi na Known as a brain-controlled weapon(naokong-wuqi), it transmits sound into the skull from a long distance, and others cannot hear it. Brain waves act as an antenna. Artificial dreaming, sneaking into dreams, releasing biological discharges at will, feeling nervous and afraid or other, others think he is mentally ill Being isolated is terrifying. No one can understand him, just like a lie, no one believes it. As far as I know, the vicinity of Bei jing West Railway Station is the military site. Regarding the author's address, the research institute under the military doctor

[@SchiferlED]

This is amazing. I actually cried because of how beautiful this is and what it will eventually lead to.

[@waltergutierrez7903]

I wish this man nothing but blessings. He's doing great work

[@arielreuter8272]

Orgulho brasileiro!

[@intelectoturbo]

I love you Miguel. You are the biggest inspiration for the Brazilian (and for the whole world) young scientists generation.

[@brandonstout7529]

The man! I saw your book in the library and it caught my attention. Thank you for sharing your knowledge. This is very inspiring to me.

[@subhalakshminatarajan9715]

Brilliant, This is amazing,all the best for the great work you do, Eagerly expecting much more miracles, in this feild, to help the needy, Thanks for sharing, truly inspiring stuff, Greetings from India,

[@Jajjamen]

How can this video not have millions of views?

[@AssClappicus]

Way to go Brazil! Science and reason beats all.

[@DeborahAbelha]

This project, this scientist. This video! those kind of occasions where I'm proud to be Brazilian! Thank you very much

[@theDerekG]

This is awesome! I can't wait for this technology to advance into the consumer electronics industry!

[@JOHNJOHNBISC]

Your country is proud of you Miguel Nicolelis!!

[@PitaBorges]

Viva Miguel Nicolelis!

[@batmanien]

"We absorb technology as apart of us, but technology will never absorb us."

[@buzianyadatutube]

+batmanien Which technology? Aren't we technology? How would we know that we are not?

[@IsuAsenjo]

In a few decades we're gonna need ADblock for our brains...

[@bramptontargetedindividual7773]

We need it now youtube voice to skull technology

[@matthewlogan4267]

@@bramptontargetedindividual7773 no we don't we dint need this at all this is horrible im a targeted individual I know the touture they do trust me you don't whant this.

[@FanServiceGod]

He did an amazing job despite an obvious speech barrier.

[@Malu50055]

Orgulhooooooo!!!!! Incrível demais BRAZIL HAS AMAZING SCIENTISTS!

[@Marticus518]

what an amazing presentation, this technology is mindblowingly awesome.

[@user-kh4we2ti9z]

and very touching, i love our times.. and i love the minds of the curious!

[@victorrodrigues3063]

Orgulho professor! 💚🇧🇷

[@leandroazamor]

The way the 3 monkeys work together synchronized without knowing about each other is amazing, but how is that different from our human society? We all work for the same goals: survive, comfort, development and so on, but we do all that together by focusing on our own micro tasks, for our own juice (money, happiness, love...) We are all sychronized and working together for a bigger goal without having to know each other, just like Milton Friedman view on how no individual can make a pencil by himself, or even the way Douglas Adams calls Earth as a big computer working to answer the questions of the universe and everything else, a more complex philosophical goal. Miguel congratulations, you inspire so many people, I'm proud to be one of them.

[@clobassetto7043]

Emocionante!

[@willwillwillltube]

Sr. Nicolelis Primeiramente parabéns! Brasileiro, gostaria de ver sua palestra ou entrevista como esta por aqui. O que impede o senhor de trazer este futuro mais rápido?

[@heloneidaheloneida]

Bozomicos programa está destruído o Brasil 🇧🇷 e a ciência 🧪🧬

[@otaldogenio3374]

Obrigado por mostra que no Brasil não temos apenas futebol, carnaval e outras coisinhas.... Temos pessoas que buscam contribuir para o mundo de forma impressionante como o senhor estar a fazer, apesar da existência de um governo que não investe em educação muito menos investe inovação científica o senhor fez milagre obrigado por carregar o nome Brasil com sigo.

[@carlossilva8087]

Agora é ainda mais sério, o governo de agora não apenas não investe mas tbm quer acabar com o resto que existe. Todo semestre o governo remove cada vez mais dinheiro do governo para dar ao Arthur Lira!! Eu sou da área científica.

[@aaronespinoza5598]

This is exciting and inspiring

[@margatrizia]

Wonderful

[@stigmatizedminstrel1837]

Thanks

[@Ella-dh7sh]

It's great!

[@benjaminmagno9762]

karaka, show!!! o cara explica tão bem, que deu pra enterder até o ingles dele, e fez minha mente convulsionar...

[@SerbianBlack]

This is the future of everything and I'm ready, Freddy.

[@user-kh4we2ti9z]

amazing

[@leonidasvinicius]

ORGULHO DE SER BRASILEIRO!!!

[@leonidasvinicius]

Edilson Lima todo dia me deparo com seres humanos de lixo, vc é só mais um, apresente-me o seu projeto, seu imbecil.

[@carlosfernandes2360]

Leonidas Leite não peça a ele que apresente um projeto, pq isso só vai aumentar o racismo do planeta.

[@lamperouge459]

Superb

[@ivanbarbosa81]

obrigado

[@JT-xf9sw]

Nice

[@srgwarcock]

I actually got the chills @ 14:45

[@antoniociacciarelli]

Does anyone know where I can find the study of the man to man brain to brain connection, mentioned in the end of this video?

[@SangoProductions213]

This is really quite old, but I'm glad someone finally covered it on Ted talks. was quite exciting the first time I heard of it.

[@Niosus]

Wow... most people seem to be scared by this. Why? Controlling a machine with your brain is just cutting out the middle man (your hands). This could allow finer control, but what exactly makes this scary? The brain to brain communication also isn't exactly the scariest thing. It is like another sense. We can transfer information visually, acoustically (etc) and this would just be another method to communicate. Note that they did not use invasive methods, meaning that they do _not_ put something inside your head. You need to wear a special helmet for it to work. How exactly is that scary? It's even better than hearing because you can simply take it off when you don't want to receive anything, while you can't simply not hear someone when they are talking to you. Everyone needs to calm down and not immediately think about the apocalyptic movies whenever there is progress. Nobody can control your brain or thoughts using this. This is just some advanced pattern recognition to detect whenever the person is thinking about walking. We don't even know how exactly a thought forms, let alone anyone could somehow manipulate your thoughts by stimulating your brain. There are far cheaper and more effective ways to brainwash people...

[@PanaeolusLBK]

Thank you for your rational point of view

[@iankimca]

Cure4Living I don't think we're anywhere close to sending signals back to the brain to manipulate it in fine detail, the best we have is we can stimulate motor function but I doubt we could ever get an average middle-aged man to turn into Jason Bourne.

[@adrift-at-c]

I don't know, taking off your helmet while someone's talking to you seems exactly as douchey as making a point of putting earplugs in while someone's talking to you. Or sticking your fingers in your ears and going "LALALALALAL I CAN'T HEAR YOU LALALALALA..."

[@plavix221]

Cure4Living which is true. QUestion will be: do you have sth to hide?just in the most unlikely event someone is interested in your cooking recipes or how was your last poo.

[@Niosus]

***** Where did I mention a God? If you want a discussion about how this impacts religion and theology, I advice you and anyone else who wishes to engage to start a new comment thread.

[@theminh1024]

That’s Great

[@Srindal4657]

I would really like an update on this type of technology. Like what would happen if we just made a wireless device connected to someone else, hardwired to the brain no interpretation software at all and just waited. Would the brain learn how to use the device and send information?

[@aparecidaandrade6442]

Muito bom!

[@ligitmuffin]

It's sad that I'm actually scared of this technology. I'm extremely excited, but scared. Simply because I know the world we currently live in and the potential weaponry that could be made from this. I just hope that we soon realise how foolish this arms race is and focus on things like this. Things that will actually make a positive change in the world. Rather than spending so much time energy and resources try I trying to invent new ways to kill each other.

[@cellocovers3982]

You aren't scared at all.

[@joeyjojojjjjjj]

Skynet is coming......

[@NathanWubs]

Lol you must actually have been horrified then if you lived 50 years ago, or even longer ago.

[@keys72]

Imagine the control you can impose on a populations with this kind of technology. To be able to manipulate peoples minds through targeted electrical impulses... remotely. People are always willing to follow and obey when they feel vulnerable, in the future, making an entire population suffer from depression, or make anyone behave submissively without even being aware that it's happening... I'm scared

[@avedic]

Yes, of course technology like this is scary when you think of governments and corporations being the sole arbiters of how it's used. True enough. But...forget about what the government will do to us......what about what *_WE_* will do to the government? It goes both ways. ALL technology is good....all of it. It only becomes evil when humanity sits back and lets our oppressors dominate the conversation. Almost all potentially scary technology...if used intelligently, can literally be a tool for our liberation. Let's hope humanity realizes their true power before the political/economic elite do.

[@daleminkel2816]

I had a thought about it though; if these neural messages are sent and received by this, what are the odds that a master designer hasn't already done such a thing? Thoughts come to the brain uninvited all the time. What if they applied this same science in a slightly different but parallel way so that all the unwelcomed, unneeded, uninvited thoughts stayed out of the picture and the individual was truly the author of his/her own thoughts?

[@buddy77587]

incredable

[@EaeWally]

orgulho brasileiro ♥

[@Mastikator]

This is incredible, the beginning is nigh!

[@heloisafloripa7194]

Professor Nicolelis, parabéns, fico emocianada até hoje! Só gostaria de saber uem patrocinou a invenção, a UFRN (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte)? Houve parceria da iniciativa privada? Professor Nicolelis, congratulations, I am still touched today! I would just like to know who sponsored the invention, UFRN (Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte)? Was there a partnership with the private sector?

[@ajellis6168]

This video had me like "EVERYTHING IS AWESOME!!"

[@HikariMagic20]

There is the machine, the exoskeleton, that can help someone move but in 2017 there is an experimental procedure scheduled to give their volunteer a full body transplant. This procedure will sever his spinal cord and rejoin it to the body of a brain dead body. This may lead to the ability to replace crushed nerves to allow the re-connection of lost nerves.

[@ytubeanon]

The pressure to hurry up and lack of time was annoying given the subject matter. Also, he should've said early on whether this was invasive or non-invasive brain tech, he said it was non in the man-to-man case, but still big difference.

[@_Garm_]

interesting and fascinating, first BORG technology :P :)

[@roniedias1991]

Gigante!

[@juliusxng]

Brilliant O.O wanna be a scientist

[@mahmoudkayyali1014]

is there is any way possible to contact miguel nicolelis

[@simonsundelin46]

It seems like the ways of manipulating just got to a whole other level... But I must say that this research is remarkably cool!! :)

[@MaheshSabbavarapu]

I wish he focused more on the topic and less on Brazil and its world cup victory and how amazing it is.

[@nati22love]

maravilhoso!

[@edilsonlima5985]

Com mais de R$30 milhões de verba pública e uma super amizade com o governo, até o menininho de rua que dorme debaixo da ponte vira um cientista super conceituado. E a ideia é de outros não dele.

[@LuizFernandodaSilvaBorges]

Ideias não tem dono, meu amigo, o que vale é a execução. Este tipo de comentário é bem típico de quem não é do mundo científico.

[@edilsonlima5985]

Ninguém te perguntou nada!

[@LuizFernandodaSilvaBorges]

A tu também não, e pra querer desmerecer o projeto insinuando algo sem provas assim tem que ser muito tacanho ou recalcado.

[@bigfletch8]

Further proof that the brain is a biological receiver/transmitter. First the subject had to imagine the event, then the brain responded. Loved most what Miguel said about the impossibility of artificial intelligence "taking over". Material, no matter how capable, has the power of imagination. Imagine that ;-) We each "have" a brain . Nobody "is" their brain. It is programmable. Who is programming yours? Many are trying!!!

[@Phelan666]

Why contain it?

[@JorgeGamaliel]

Amazing!! It is Synthetic Telephaty.

[@5to22a]

This would make me excited if it weren't for what government will do with it.

[@avedic]

True enough. But.....what about what *_WE_* will do to the government? It goes both ways. ALL technology is good....all of it. It only becomes evil when humanity sits back and lets our oppressors dominate the conversation. Almost all potentially scary technology...if used intelligently, can literally be a tool for our liberation. Let's hope humanity realizes their true power before the political/economic elite do.

[@5to22a]

avedic I hope we make government obsolete.

[@MaxYari]

avedic the elite is elite for a reason, and 95% of humanity is a mindless tribe. So, this let's hope is pointless, if there is a need to hope for something, thatn hope that our future will be in hand of the right people of "elite."

[@JakeUskoski]

Dark Day Ministries Fun fact, if we were to 'overthrow the government', the first thing we would do is form a new government and call it something different, and then in about five hundred years our ancestors would overthrow that new government calling it 'corrupt' and the like. Do you even know what a government is? Do any of you understand what politicians are? Politicians are representatives of the people, put in place by the people to make decisions for the people. When the people put greedy humans into the role of representative, they are giving an evil man or woman the power to do evil things, and this is repeated for every single position of parliament. You want a better government? So does everyone else, but how many of you do anything about it? How many good people get voted into parliament compared to neutral or bad people? There's a lot less black and white in the situation but this is a simplified explanation. The people who vote in bad people are a majority, otherwise the majority would vote in good people. You want to know why your government is 'corrupt'? Because you all choose to vote in these corrupt politicians and give them the power to do what you then later complain about. Either shut up about the whole "let's overthrow the government" crap or do something about it. We are a social pack animal who look to leaders to guide us, it's instinctual. Until that changes, we will always have a government, and the government is the responsibility of all the people as much as the government is responsible for all the people.

[@RuLeZ1988]

So what i understand is, that the neural communication and messages within our brain doesnt get transmitted directly to another brain, what probably many people misunderstand here. Its more like there is an interface... in that case a artificial skin which receives brain signals and these brain signals are used to control commands on a computer, which transform these commands into visual responses and the visual signals can then be seen by other people. So its not a direct brain to brain connection... cause there are a few interfaces connected between these... receiving brain signals --> transmitting brain signals to computer --> transform brain signals to visual signals... in one of his described experiments between two humans there was even the internet interface placed in.... So it is as if someone would paint a picture by hand and then show to another person.... or just talking to someone would be another interface example how we transfer information.... So the indirect brain-to-brain communication was always existing. Its more that the way we communicate with a computer device by brain signals does develop and advance more in the future, which ultimately can give us new potential ways of communication. But direct brain-to-brain communication does not exist yet, even if these messages are transfered within miliseconds , since there are interfaces inbetween those brains. If those received brain signals would be transmitted directly to artificial skin on another brain and this other brain can then understand these received brain signals, without the need to visualize it by sound or picture, then i would call it direct brain-to-brain communication, but thats not happening yet. So the title "Brain-to-brain communication has ARRIVED." is not completely true, since brain-to-brain communciation did already exist before with always the need of some kind of interfaces.

[@gidmanone]

ohh this might be good for passing exams :)

[@mustaphaoubenali9666]

woooow that's really amizing???

[@BlueNSour]

I'm uneducated on the topic and I think this is super awesome but why wasn't just fixing the damage to the spine fixed first? I feel like a robot that can read your thoughts would be more difficult than wiring some nerves together. Obviously I'm missing something here so I'd appreciate it if someone explained it to me

[@viniciuscaldas4143]

Because the message sent to our brain and our spine are electrical, so the "damage" can not be fixed like a surgery or anything like that.

[@sirrobin5131]

I personally would like to learn if we could accomplish a task utilizing a multi-species test group. Possibly man, monkey, and dog?

[@Zentaurus21Blogspotr08m1n]

awesome . . . but also scary ^_~

[@casey6259]

I don't think this would ever be wide spread since it requires invasive surgery to communicate brain to brain messages

[@archy0720]

Back to the future !

[@terrylaguardia6838]

How would this work for people with Parkinson’s?

[@SuperSupergeo]

You mean I can now learn karate just by downloading a file into my brain? The Matrix has arrived, people of the Internet...

[@firstnamelastname4752]

This is not what he means.

[@roses4403]

Reminds me a little of metal gear solid.. I could imagine that if one wanted to implement this technology for war, it would be very effective. But I'm hoping it becomes mostly medically and psychologically applied, maybe even socially. This could be leading to things so mind blowingly large that we couldn't imagine. Like, what would this be like with a 3-d printer? If you could convert thoughts into 3D art.

[@bramptontargetedindividual7773]

It would be dope if used for good but the lalilulelo are already using it for mind control youtube v2k

[@Sarcoma1]

imagine sao with this

[@adaylateacoinshort]

A day will come when humans will be able to manipulate time and matter just by thinking.. and then the greed, fear and lethargy that is the ego, will finally die. And when this universe cycle ends with the last two black holes colliding, our consciousness will reverberate with the phenomenon.

[@philippecirilo]

Brazilian scientist!

[@autocorrect1790]

Imagine the whole universe connected their minds in solving problems one at a time, just like the three monkeys played the game with shared intelligence. A collective intelligence will be able to solve some of the most difficult problems humanity faces everyday. #oneconciousness

[@bigfletch8]

And also cause those same problems. It is always a two way street.

[@mustaphaoubenali9666]

But what if i show you an other side of brain communication,,well i'm not a neuroscientist but i need some logical explecations: well , my name is mustapha i'm from Morocco . i study sociology ,but I interested to neuroscience .My intervation will initiate by this two question:is it possible to make two human brains in communication /connection without any psysical or symbolic links? and how we can unlearn the communication of human brains without physical or symbolic links? i asked this questions because i have made this experince before , what i mean is make two human brains to communicate without any phisical or symbolic links ,like neuroscience equipements .For example me and you (the reader) we can changing the same information in the same time and same where by our brains, informations like talking with each other or participating in a game compitation or watching a show or whatever ,,,, this means we can make a succesful communication , it looks like two persons dreaming one dream.The first time i did it just bu a chance or by accedent , but i success to reapate it again , and i did it many times however it works and it gives the same results which confirme the possibility of the imaginary idea of "reading thoughts ". i didn't it in laboratory ,i made it by just two things. 1 a material ,and 2 is a special way. All what i do use this material to motivate the two brains or more ,because we did it one time by three persons. So i motivate the brains by that material ,and my explanation is maybe some area in those brains been activate ,and makes this kind of communication . This is just a general idea , if you have any questions i can explain more and in details.Then I wish share you'r ideas with me and told me it is interesting or not thank you.

[@rlholo]

Fantastic work that he's doing, but it bothered me a bit with the innacurate non-sequitor references about flight and the first group to achieve brain-to-brain communication. The Wright Brothers flew a plane in 1903, Alberto Dumont didn't fly a plane till 1906. Dumont did float in a dirigible in 1901, but not a plane... he floated, he did not fly. The operable difference is that flying is the act of being aloft and in control with a vehicle that is heavier than the air. Also, scientists from the Universithy of Washington in Seattle demonstrated human-to-human brain interaction over the internet in August of 2014, six months prior to this Ted Talk, and they've repeated it multiple times with multiple groups since then. So, I'm glad he's proud of his work and his country, and well he should be, but I wish he would refrain from diminishing the work of other great inventors. A few years ago, a guy tried to claim that a man from Connecticut flew a plane before the Wrights. When the facts were followed up, only two of the "eye witnesses" could be found and they both said it didn't happen. Bottom line - all these inventors (including Miguel Nicolelis) have courage and perserverence. None of them deserves to have his accomplshments diminished by careless words.

[@boogeymanws]

Speaking to each other will become obsolete.

[@RSP13]

clap! clap! clap!

[@stinkyratman2157]

This is my drama teacher's dad

[@alex_oiman]

Thats not really brain to brain communication. thats more like brains communicating to a computer. you could easily do that experiment without connecting their brains together. one way to prove that their brains actually communicate would be to make them guess shapes. the experiment would be something like this: show one monkey the left half of the shape show the other monkey the right half of the shape then make both monkeys choose the complete shape form a number of shapes (some containing 1 of the 2 halves) if each monkey chooses the correct shape, then the experiment is a success and proves brain to brain comunication.

[@NicolasTylerDoyle]

talking is ALSO brain to brain communication.

[@tiagow95]

Yes it is. So?...

[@NicolasTylerDoyle]

tiago tabosa keep thinking. you're almost there young one

[@iWindBlade]

What about people that can't talk? Depending on the way this technology works, it might 'cure' mute people. Checkmate, atheists.

[@NicolasTylerDoyle]

Quiet Fox how about i just pick up the chess board and throw the pieces everywhere like a 5 year old. boom 5 year olds win. check mate, intellectual adults !!

[@iWindBlade]

Haha stupid, checkmate literally can not exist when there are no pieces on the board. Perhaps you need to learn more about it in your books, hm?

[@jackcrofton3386]

this is brain communication not mind control

[@chrislamont274]

Everyone, and rightly so, is apprehensive of this technology. But I can guarantee that the feelings you have towards it are similar to that of our ancestors feelings towards every new technology over the millennia. I'm talking about printed press, electricity, radio, television, internet, nuclear power, GMO... even fire was a frightening technology when first harnessed. There has been no powerful technology that has been stopped because of its risks, so let us embrace the positives of this new technology.

[@bramptontargetedindividual7773]

This tech is already being used for mk ultra mind control youtube v2k

[@tdreamgmail]

First step to singularity

[@HASHHASSIN]

there is no singularity

[@MaxYari]

Holy cow... 0_0

[@adrift-at-c]

He said the phrase, "It's not rocket science, it's just brain research," unironically. What do I do with this now?

[@Kino280]

Uses I'm thinking of: Ironman suit SAO Nervegear Octavius tentacles Hive mind

[@JustOneAsbesto]

Hmmm. Silver Springs, anyone?

[@arthurdent6256]

he he

[@cestarianinhabitant5898]

Can we get it? And can we PLEASE get it open source? Just so that the entire world can play with, modify and upgrade this technology at will. And so that this technology won't be wasted on corporate idiots who only think in dollar $igns. This technology will change the world of video gaming as the last missing piece to the ultimate virtual reality headset, and this technology will lead to the ultimate artificial limbs. But in the right hands (Everyone's hands!, not just the hands of a few!) it will change the face of humanity and our culture completely. It will do so because this technology can be used to upload data online, store it on a server, and then download directly to another persons brain. Hook up an artist (or a few) and bam,anyone can learn to draw in 3 seconds. Hook up a historian, and bam, anyone can learn everything there is to know about history in under a minute. Mathematician, bam!, Language teacher, bam!. martial artist, bam! We're not just talking information as we read it in text, we're talking motor skills and reflex also being taught in instants, we will no longer have to worry about so called "reading comprehension" when everything is fed directly to the brain. But we're a bit of ways from there,and corporate idiots would either fail to see this possibility, or develop it at a much slower rate than it could develop in open source, and then use it for profitability (i.e.they'd actually sell the skills for a high price point rather than just giving it all away for free, as information should be.) This would essentially be wikipedia 2.0.

[@zilianthegreat]

Cestarian Inhabitant Yes, allowing everyone to experiment and use this technology to create new and better programs is awesome, that would litterally speed up the research by a pretty big amount.

[@Aluminata]

" It's not rocket science - it's just brain surgery."

[@katherinegordon8088]

Lol

[@rawstarmusic]

How about overcoming the damaged nerve for 24 million paralyzed people, how is that coming along?

[@WayneJohnsonZastil]

They should attach devices like these to criminals instead of jail.

[@arthurdent6256]

Too expensive.

[@Lumpyrox1412]

'Abuse your free will, lose your free will.' Interesting opinion.

[@1THETUFFGUY]

Let's think about this, punish a person already in jail by using them as a guinea before rolling out this out onto the population that are law abiding civilians, basically bring back slavery and probably some of the Black code laws of the 19th century. Who are going to control these criminals global corporations?

[@arthurdent6256]

Brian Fletcher That would take a long, long, time. Slowest, assassination, EVER (comic book guy voice)

[@marymarimarie4017]

Up

[@BariumCobaltNitrog3n]

It's called NON-VERBAL COMMUNICATION, other wise known as chemistry, empathy, sympathy...

[@IMAHMS]

It would have been much better if he just explained the technology without the exaggerated drama

[@brnsndr2000]

Tedx is nothing but a 'new world' propaganda where they use science to push for political and social agendas. Of course they have to dramatize everything.

[@arthurdent6256]

hazem3008 The Universe is a hologram, buy gold.

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Nathan C. lol

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Nathan C. Can I buy a hole gram of it please...I have some digital currency...stored in my Fiat.... Imagine that !!!

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Nathan C. Oh I get it. You are member of the global freemasonry organization. Say hi to your master (Satan) for me.