Man-Machine Interface
We are reaching the age of man where machine becomes a greater party of our daily life. At first, this will be subtle. Always having the internet with you, amputees receiving advanced prosthetics, etc. As we go along, it will completely alter human society, with mechanical replacement of natural human systems, integrated cloud computing, and enhanced reality computing.
In the meantime, and purely in the field of genetics, we are seeing three driving forces.
1) Rapid advancements in mechanical prosthetics
2) A massive wave of new amputees and disabled young citizens returning from the Iraq and Afghan wars
3) Breakthroughs in man machine interfaces.
Developments have been made in arm and leg amputations with connections to the severed nerves. However, a line of development focusing directly on interaction with the brain has taken a major step forward.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/29/science/29brain.html?ref=science
Monkeys in the test were able to communicate with and operate a prosthetic limb. This has been done before in the same line of research, but this time, they were able to interact with the arm, using it as their own, with advanced controls and adaptations to certain scenarios (the offered marshmallow sticking to one of the pincers for example). There are a lot of challenges and a long way to go before you will see this effectively used for humans, but human trials are not far off, and rapid developments not far behind it.
In the meantime, and purely in the field of genetics, we are seeing three driving forces.
1) Rapid advancements in mechanical prosthetics
2) A massive wave of new amputees and disabled young citizens returning from the Iraq and Afghan wars
3) Breakthroughs in man machine interfaces.
Developments have been made in arm and leg amputations with connections to the severed nerves. However, a line of development focusing directly on interaction with the brain has taken a major step forward.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/29/science/29brain.html?ref=science
Monkeys in the test were able to communicate with and operate a prosthetic limb. This has been done before in the same line of research, but this time, they were able to interact with the arm, using it as their own, with advanced controls and adaptations to certain scenarios (the offered marshmallow sticking to one of the pincers for example). There are a lot of challenges and a long way to go before you will see this effectively used for humans, but human trials are not far off, and rapid developments not far behind it.
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