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  1. Bionic Brains And What Science Can Foresee

    In case you don’t read The Journal of Neural Engineering, here’s the news: scientists have created a brain implant that restores lost memory function and strengthens recall.

    A brain implant. Now, it was in a rat. But it’s proven what can be done.

    And offered a glimpse of what’s coming for humans. There is lots of talk about the “bionic brain.” To repair injuries, like Gabby Giffords’.

    To supplement brains like yours and mine. Check out this headline: “Intel Wants Brain Implants in Customers Heads by 2020.”

    It’s exciting, and it’s scary.

    http://onpoint.wbur.org/2011/06/21/bionic-brains

    —Huffduffed by mortenjust one year ago

  2. Big Ideas - The Limits on Technology

    While neuroscience and biomedicine speed ahead at an awesome pace, this 2008 Deakin Lecture questions what the ethical and legal barriers are to unlimited progress. It features Professor Roger Brownsword, from Kings College London. He is the director of the Centre for Technology, Ethics, Law and Society at the University of Edinburgh.

    http://www.abc.net.au/rn/bigideas/stories/2009/2449263.htm

    —Huffduffed by mortenjust one year ago