12:55 PM
Jalal HB
A MUST READ POST
For quite sometime now, computer has been a man-controlled machine: we right something and computer retrieves it for us. But that was not much of technological work, though it was when computer was invented.
Now here is something that comes as a breakthrough: computer reading your thoughts and putting these to words. That is now computer is working instead of humans and bringing out what is stored in our brain.
An X-ray CT scan of the head showing electrodes distributed over the brain's temporal lobe, where sounds are processed [Photo Adeen Finker, UC Berkely / Mail Online]
Scientists believe the inventions could offer a lifeline to those whose speech has been affected by stroke or degenerative disease, but many will be concerned about the implications of a technique that can eavesdrop on thoughts and reproduce them.
