Jacking into the brain
Check out this panel proposal for next year’s SXSW Interactive festival:
Will we be able to jack into the brain and upload helicopter instructions, like in The Matrix? We already have the technology to control a prosthetic arm or Twitter with thoughts alone. Dishes of neurons can control a robot. And scientists have created a working artificial memory chip in rats.
What do I do, and where can you find me?
I’m a freelance science journalist living in Brooklyn, NY.
I write, edit and produce science stories for all media (audio, video and text).
christie.nicholson@gmail.com
646-373-2478
on Twitter here.
PLEASE VOTE!
for my SXSW Interactive panels:
The Brain as Computer Interface
How Technology Affects Our Brain
LINKS TO SOME OF MY WORK:
60-Second Psych: Produce and host this weekly podcast covering human behavior and neuroscience.
60-Second Earth: Produce this weekly podcast covering energy and the environment.
60-Second Science: Occasional host of this daily podcast covering all that is new and cool in science and technology.
The Monitor: An innovative video podcast launched by SciAm in 2007.
Grand Unified Weekly: Re-incarnation of a science video podcast hosted by Slate.com in winter of 2008.
Faculty at the Science Communications Program at the Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff, Alberta.
Sometimes things are just out of control
Newton’s first law: An object at rest tends to remain at rest and an object in motion tends to remain in motion with the same speed and in the same direction unless acted upon by an unbalanced force.