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I’m sitting in my desk chair, staring at a group of jellyfish on my phone, and wearing a neurofeedback device called URGOnight ($499), a bulky white headband fitted with four gold electrodes that runs across my forehead, on top of my head, and behind my ears. Occasionally a jellyfish disappears from my phone screen and a little happy piano note sounds my “reward” ping. I’m confused. I like sea jellies. Why would I want them to disappear? I try staring around my room. I glance at a poster about soil types
ping. A tree outside my window
ping. Back to the poster
By Anna Wexler April 7, 2021Reprints
Adobe
The titans of Silicon Valley say that the brain-computer interface revolution is coming, and neurotech devices will soon meld mind and machine, allowing us to communicate effortlessly with our computers and even one another just by using our thoughts.
But I believe their prognostications aren’t likely to come to fruition anytime soon.
Elon Musk invested $100 million into his neurotech startup, Neuralink, to develop an implantable device he has referred to as a “Fitbit in your skull with tiny wires.” Kernel recently unveiled a version of its brain-recording helmet, with its founder predicting that the device would be in every home by 2033. And Facebook is working on brain-computer interface (BCI) technology to enable brain-to-text typing.