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Control by Thought |
| Section: NATURAL SCIENCE / AT THE EDGE |
| Author: Jerry Shine |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 10/1/1994 |
| Size: 3,088 Words, 18,410 Characters |
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Strapped into a flight simulator at Ohio's Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, David Tumey stares at the video screen in front of him. His task is a simple one: to keep his "plane" on an even keel. As the port side begins to dip, he raises it until it's level again. He does the same with the starboard side. It's like a video game, really, not unlike any other flight simulator. Except for one thing. Tumey isn't touching any controls. In fact, the only thing connecting him to the machine is a set of electrodes attached to the back of his head. So how is he able to guide the plane through its simulated flight? Easy: with his brain waves.
Hold on to your hats because brain-actuated control, as it's known, exists here and now. It may sound like the stuff of science fiction, but in labs acros...
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..."The goal is to move the locus of control away from the fingertips. We're moving it to the forehead. After that, it may be possible to take it even closer to the brain. The important thing is that this opportunity didn't exist a few years ago, because computers just weren't powerful enough. Now we have the potential to create a beautiful marriage between humans and computers."
--J.S.
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