Editing Talk:FederalSpace:Technology (section)

== Neural interface ==

Things that read nerves are probably ''easy''. We've got a version now being used in prosthetic limbs. Things that can stimulate tactile nerves are moving out into production as well - artificial legs with feet that feel the ground and feed it to the wearer.

So, for bionics and feedback for teleoperation would be pretty easy in the 29th century.

What else can you do with it? Well, getting it ''beyond'' simple reading of limb motion and providing tactile feedback, it builds on the stuff I mentioned above, particularly neuropsychology and its tools -fMRI and transcranial magnetic stimulation. Between the two of these, they can 'read' the brain, particularly for physical motion and some sensory issues. Heck, they've reached the point where they can pull the image from a brain now. Now, the interface can see what the person wearing it sees. Probably all the other senses too. Using transcranial magnetic stimulation, maybe ultrasonics, they can induce the appropriate hallucinations as well.

Not easy. I doubt its cheap and the potential for abuse is '''huge'''. Probably restricted pretty heavily by most governments.

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