NSF.GovNew research published today in the journal Science suggests it may be possible to use brain technology to learn to play a piano, reduce mental stress or hit a curve ball with little or no conscious effort. It's the kind of thing seen in Hollywood's "Matrix" franchise.
Experiments conducted at Boston University (BU) and ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories in Kyoto, Japan, recently demonstrated that through a person's visual cortex, researchers could use decoded functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to induce brain activity patterns to match a previously known target state and thereby improve performance on visual tasks.
Think of a person watching a computer screen and having his or her brain patterns modified to match those of a high-performing athlete or modified to recuperate from an accident or disease. Though preliminary, researchers say such possibilities may exist in the future.
December 8, 2011
Suppose in the future, it becomes possible to become an expert in a field by downloading skills and knowledge into your mind with some kind futuristic technology, what skills would you choose? A visual artist who is great at painting? A 3d modeler? A fast reader? Or a field in science?
What would your second choice be?
I am already pretty competent at drawing and painting.
I choose programming, or a skill that could aid in the creation of virtual reality, as a programmer could create a program that would be used to create virtual realities automatically generating baroque style architecture without the huge laborious efforts needed. A PS4 game that auto-generates worlds: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLtmEjqzg7M
It would be pretty sweet to be able to create a program that could allow for auto-generated realistic virtual realities, that also allows it's users to select specific styles of architectures, trees, plants and virtual animals to be auto-generated. This would allow greater freedom for the user to personalize their creations.