Daily Archives: August 17, 2022

By Emily Mullin NATHAN COPELAND CONSIDERS himself a cyborg. The 36-year-old has lived with a brain-computer interface for more than seven years and three months. As of today—August 17—that’s the longest anyone has had an implant like this. Four electrode arrays, each the size of a pencil eraser, translate his neural impulses into commands that…

By Adam Rogers  For years — decades, even — news accounts and scientific journals have featured videos of human beings controlling computers with their minds. A person, often with some kind of paralysis, from either injury or disease, gets a computer chip embedded in their head — tiny, needle-like electrodes plunged into the gloppy folds…