In this short 15 minutes lecture, which is part of a series about the “Future of Human Health,” Krishna Shenoy of Standford University presents some of his research. He has been busy building neural prostheses (brain chips) that could be put into someone’s brain, in order to write information into the brain or take information out of the brain or nervous system. This is good news for people with neurological diseases. Indeed, information could be taken out of the brain of people who are unable to to communicate on their own. Moreover, it could potentially “enable paralyzed patients to control prosthetic arms and computer cursors.”

As we can rejoice about the potential therapeutic benefits of these new technologies, one cannot help but wonder what type of harmful side effects or unintended consequences such technology could be used for or produce.

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