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The Government Put a Chip in My Brain, and I Feel GREAT

March 9, 2017 By Walker McKnight Leave a Comment

Welcome to the exciting (brave?) new world of deep brain stimulation. Does the idea of implanting a chip in someone’s brain give you the creeps? Fear not! Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital and UCSF are currently trying to change the popular conception from this: into this: The researchers are attempting to use implanted brain chip technology to improve the symptoms of people with a host of mental health problems. From a technical standpoint, I’ve understood very little of what it means to put a chip in someone’s brain. My conception—based mostly on paranoid … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Coffee and Chaos Theory Tagged With: biohacking, biotech, brain, Brave New World, DARPA, futurism, Gizmodo, sci-fi, Walker McKnight

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