Booktvs web site, booktv. Org. Host tavis smiley, you list jesus christ and paul robison, two of your influences. Guest yeah. Thats quite a pair, isnt it . [laughter] i was raised in a church as i mentioned earlier pentacostal church, and ive said for all of my life that i call them the three fs, the things that mean the most to me, faith family and friends in that order. I wrote a book called keeping the faith, i close my show on pbs by saying thanks for watching im tavis smiley, keep the faith. Im always trying to remind people that faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. Thats what faith and hope really are, the evidence of things hoped for the hope of things, but even when you dont have the evidence to see how things are going to work out its always possible. I make a distinction all the time, and heres why i say keep the faith all the time i make a distinction between optimism and hope. Optimism suggests theres a particular set of facts circums
With brain implants, the future s gonna be weird
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Researchers at the University of Texas at San Antonio use brain-computer interfaces to study what happens when stutterers speak.Billy Calzada / Staff file photo
Neuralink, Elon Musk’s brain-implant startup in Austin, has a monkey that can play video games with its mind.
At least, that’s what the company claims in a video featuring a 9-year-old macaque named Pager who has two Neuralinks in his noggin.
Musk compares the implants to “a Fitbit in your skull with tiny wires.” Each coin-sized device has thousands of electrodes on thread-thin wires that reach a few centimeters into the wearer’s motor cortex.
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