- spellbound caves.:
- Just realising how dumb and mundane all this will seem 500 years from now.
I'd like to see, as stated above, many more advances in the medical field. Perhaps not a cure for cancer, not in the near future, but perhaps ways to one hundred-percent prevent stillbirth and children born with mental disability.
If a bit far-fetched, it would be sort of cool to "tap" into one's brainwaves and use them to control a prosthesis as a real appendage rather than a replacement.
And this. This very much also.
I just noticed this and I would actually like to inform you that we are on our way with that. Currently it's an implant in the brain, but they have developed a working prototype where the implant connects to wires so that the individual can make the prosthetic move like a real limb. So far they've created a prosthetic arm, and have actually hooked up the wires so that the brain interprets the censors as nerves so that there's somewhat of actual sensation in them.
It's still highly experimental due to it requiring brain surgery to do. Also, the prosthesis is very clearly a robot arm, so there is a way to go with it, but we've got to start somewhere!
Here's at least one of the articles about the woman that I heard about. Although googling this I saw links referring to a man who got a leg to work in a similar capacity.