• Question: Will we ever have wifi in our brains so we can connect to the internet without an electronic device?

    Asked by anon-199021 to Srinath, Natasha, Nana, Luisa, Gautam, Alex on 7 Mar 2019.
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      Marialuisa Crosatti answered on 7 Mar 2019:

      I am not sure whether our brain may handle some much information (most of which is useless)

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      Srinath Kasturirangan answered on 7 Mar 2019:

      I dont think we will have wifi in our brains but maybe every baby that is born will be implanted with some kind of a chip that allows them to communicate with the world wide web!? That would be cool and creepy!!

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      Alexander Allen answered on 11 Mar 2019:

      I thought about this for a while and decided that it is a VERY complicated piece of engineering. We don’t know fully how the human brain works. If we did we would be able to engineer AIs that could develop like the human brain.

      The human brain is a biological marvel! It has taken millions of years to forge complex neurological pathways that carry electrical signals to and from nerves all over the body. We are a sense sensation!

      So the problem is creating a device that could interface and be controlled by something that we need so much more understanding of. Neuroscience is the best field to go into: the science of the brain and it’s a branch involving all sciences. Chemistry, Physics and Biology as well as medicine.

      It may be possible but not for a long time yet.

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      Natasha Dowey answered on 12 Mar 2019:

      This is a really interesting question, and raises quite a lot of ethical issues as well as scientific ones. If we had wifi in our brains, in theory would people be able to hack into our mind? Currently, our phones store information about our private lives, our thoughts, our bank accounts, and if they are stolen or hacked into it its a very big deal! So if we had that kind of technology in our brains what would that mean for life- could we control other people? In terms of the actual science, the work going on in artificial intelligence, with things like driverless cars and robotic asistance, is absolutely incredible. An awesome area of science to work in. I would never say never, but I think it would be a long way off. I also wonder, even if it were possible, whether governments perhaps would ban it for fear of people being controlled like robots!

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