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米格爾·尼科萊利斯是一位世界領先的研究者,他的研究有一天可能使截癱患者能夠透過自己的思想控制計算機。作為任何新晉暢銷書作家的例行公事,他昨晚在每日秀節目中拜訪了喬恩·斯圖爾特。斯圖爾特對尼科萊利斯的裝置表達了必要的驚歎,該裝置目前已允許猴子僅憑思想(大腦電訊號)控制電腦游標、虛擬化身或機器人——並且有一天可能讓殘疾人,甚至我們所有人,都能做到同樣的事情。想象一下透過腦電波聯網的快閃族。尼科萊利斯與斯圖爾特交談了幾分鐘,並在《大眾科學》二月刊上發表的摘自《超越邊界:連線大腦與機器的新神經科學——以及它將如何改變我們的生活》編輯節選中更詳細地闡述了他的願景。

 


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Gary Stix, senior editor of mind and brain topics at 大眾科學, edits and reports on emerging advances that have propelled brain science to the forefront of the biological sciences. Stix has edited or written cover stories, feature articles and news on diverse topics, ranging from what happens in the brain when a person is immersed in thought to the impact of brain implant technology that alleviates mood disorders such as depression. Before taking over the neuroscience beat, Stix, as 大眾科學's special projects editor, was responsible for the magazine's annual single-topic special issues, conceiving of and producing issues on Albert Einstein, Charles Darwin, climate change and nanotechnology. One special issue he oversaw on the topic of time in all of its manifestations won a National Magazine Award. With his wife Miriam Lacob, Stix is co-author of a technology primer called Who Gives a Gigabyte? A Survival Guide for the Technologically Perplexed.

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