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FUTURE LEARNING. "It may someday be possible to use brain technology to learn to play the piano, reduce mental stress, or even master kung fu with little or no conscious effort. Lead author and BU neuroscientist Takeo Watanabe says in a statement: "Adult early visual areas are sufficiently plastic to cause visual perceptual learning." https://lnkd.in/e_gwy9d View in LinkedIn

UNKNOWINGLY INDUCED. "With an online-feedback method that uses decoded functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) signals, we induced activity patterns only in early visual cortex corresponding to an orientation without stimulus presentation or participants’ awareness of what was to be learned.” (T. Watanabe et al.). http://science.sciencemag.org/content/334/6061/1413.abstract View in LinkedIn

FAILED STUDIES. "Several past meta-analyses cast serious doubt on the tech’s brain-boosting powers. Two such papers, both from the University of Melbourne, found that single-session tDCS had “little-to-no” reliable effect on executive function, language or memory in healthy young volunteers." http://singularityhub.com/2016/03/06/can-you-download-knowledge-into-your-brain-with-electricity/ View in LinkedIn

NBIC WILL TRANSFORM. "The convergence of nanotechnology, biotechnology, information technology, and cognitive science (NBIC) is creating a set of powerful tools that have the potential to significantly enhance human performance as well as transform society, science, economics, and human evolution." http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1196/annals.1305.010/abstract?userIsAuthenticated=false&deniedAccessCustomisedMessage= View in LinkedIn

HISTORIC OPPORTUNITY. "Never before has any civilization had the unique opportunity to enhance human performance on the scale that we will face in the near future." https://lnkd.in/ebKCuCE View in LinkedIn

CURIOUSLY, we usually associate innovation with humans. But the master innovator is nature. View in LinkedIn

INNOVATION. "Human beings are obsessive innovators. Homo sapiens (knower) is by nature Homo faber (fabricator). Life without what philosopher Michael Novak has called ‘the fire of invention’ doubtless would be nasty, bloody, and brutish." https://lnkd.in/ejS2tMH View in LinkedIn

EXTRAPOLATION. “Loladze scoured the scientific literature for any studies and data he could find. The results, as he collected them, all seemed to point in the same direction: The junk-food effect he had learned about in that Arizona lab also appeared to be occurring in fields and forests around the world.” https://lnkd.in/eq-SAGC View in LinkedIn

"WHAT IF we could communicate with each other simply by thinking about it?” https://lnkd.in/evPViuJ View in LinkedIn