Mind Reading

Alejandro Jimenez
Mr. Gray
Period A
10 May 2018

website: http://www.imeche.org/news/news-article/feature-this-machine-can-read-your-mind-engineers-unlock-secrets-of-the-brain



 Summary:
 Engineerings are building human machine interfaces that can make mind reading a reality. This movement can lead to medical devices that transform patients lives. Although this sounds like something in a fantasy, scientist are getting closer and closer to to unlocking the secret. They already created video games that can be controlled with your mind. Instead of holding the controller, players sit in a chair with a virtual reality headset strapped around their head, and nothing in their hands. This can improve human interactions; engineers all over the planet are attempting to design and build human machine interfaces to connect our brains directly to our devices. Some are focused on wearable devices that can read our intentions from our brain waves. Others are digging into the cortex itself, leaning on advances in materials science to create chips to be implanted into the brain. These device are already changing the lives of patients with brain damage and disorders, and in the future they could allow us to transmit complex thoughts to out devices.

  My Thoughts:
 This idea of mind reading has been the dream of many people; even when I was a kid I wanted to believe I had mind reading capabilities. Seeing it only on tv shows or movies it was an inspiration to maybe one day this will be possible. Today we might actually have the technology to make this come true which gets me excited. Not only it will fulfill my childhood fantasy but we could actually use this technology to help peoples lives which makes it so much better. People without limbs could use this technology to become independent. Now just by thinking of something they came get the action; it is like instant gratification.