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Facebook’s Race to Link Your Brain to a Computer Might Be Unwinnable

Apr 28, 20179 min
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“What if you could type directly from your brain?” Regina Dugan said, as the same words appeared on the towering screen behind her, one digital character at a time, a cursor leading the way. “It sounds impossible,” she continued, taking another measured step across the stage. “But it’s closer than you may realize.” Dugan once oversaw Darpa, the visionary research arm of the US Department of Defense.

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