Imagine a future technology that
would provide instant access to the world's knowledge and artificial
intelligence, simply by thinking about a specific topic or question.
Communications, education, work, and the world as we know it would be
transformed. Researchers at UC Berkeley and the US Institute for Molecular
Manufacturing predicts that exponential progress in nanotechnology,
nanomedicine, AI, and computation will lead this century to the development of
a 'Human Brain/Cloud Interface' (B/CI), that connects brain cells to vast
cloud-computing networks in real time performance.
B/CI technology might also allow
us to create a future global superbrain that would connect networks of
individual human brains and AIs to enable collective thought. An experimental
human BrainNet system has already been tested, enabling thought-driven
information exchange via the cloud between individual brains. It used
electrical signals recorded through the skull of 'senders' and magnetic
stimulation through the skull of 'receivers,' allowing for performing
cooperative tasks. With the advance of neuralnanorobotics, we envisage the
future creation of superbrains that can harness the thoughts and thinking power
of any number of humans and machines in real time.
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