5. The Human Computer: How to Rewire and Turbo-Boost Your Ape Brain
According to a 2013 Gallup poll, 70 percent of Americans hate their jobs. A 2015 survey showed 70 percent of Britons dread the week ahead.
Across the pond in the UK, Kevin Warwick isn’t one of those people. He is a professor of cybernetics at the University of Reading (England) and when he goes to work he gets to do things such as grow miniature brains from mice neurons, and put them into robots to see what happens.
Yes, really.
How cool is that?
But wait, there’s more.
Besides that, he’s done incredible things such as connect his nervous system to his wife’s, allowing the couple to remotely communicate using their thoughts.
Warwick is at the forefront of brain science. He’s ...
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