Right? I mean show a guy 200 years ago a light bulb and he’d shit. Let alone a smart phone or laptop or airplane or fridge. So yeah, what I’m gonna talk about sounds impossible but it’s not.

Nanotech May Tap Into Your Mind – New sensors built using nanotechnology could read and write information directly into the brain.

Sometimes I like to forget what our governments might do with this technology (scary… I know) and just bask in how fucking awesome that is. We’re starting to decode the way our brains work, and we’re learning how to interface with them. This means a bunch of things.

1. We’ll soon be able to ‘back-up’ our brains. This literally means immortality. Well, the universe is still expanding, and it’ll still burn out, but until then, it’ll be possible to live on. You’re body will die, or slowly be replaced by machine parts, but your thoughts, your consciousness, everything that makes up who you are, can be saved.

2. Full immersion virtual reality. I’m talking virtual worlds that are completely indistinguishable from reality. Sight, sound, smell, touch, taste. Think about it, if you can interrupt the signals going to your brain, and tell it that you’re at the beach in the sun with the wind going 5 mph and someone cooking barbecue ten feet away, how would it know the difference? It’s just reading electrical signals like it always does, only this time they aren’t coming from your sense organs, they’re coming from a computer.

We’ll have worlds where the laws of physics say everyone can fly around like superman, or whatever. You can go skydiving without any of the risk of skydiving, but with all of the experience. Shit, you could do it without a parachute just to feel what it’s like to die if that’s what gets you off.

3. As astounding as those first two are, here’s what I feel is the real kicker. If we can read, write, interpret, and transfer information between brains, this will connect people like never before. Imagine sharing your feelings with a loved one. I don’t mean talking, I mean literally allowing them to experience your emotions with you. Imagine how powerful that could be.

Ever tried to explain something to someone, and they just couldn’t get it, or you couldn’t pick the right words? Well, just transfer the thought. Show them exactly what you’re thinking by allowing them to share your thought. Connections between humans have never, could never have been, this intimate.

People could understand each other, really understand, and really connect with each other. If nothing else, I feel this has real potential to bring about world peace. Wide spread empathy would electrify the globe.

DISCLAIMER: I know, if you read the article, it says none of these things, it doesn’t even say we can read/write data to brains, just that we might be able to and even if we can what I’m talking about is a bunch more steps ahead of just being able to do that. I know I like science and I should be a skeptic, but I want this to happen, badly. I don’t want to die, and more importantly I wanna pretend I’m the X-men in a virtual reality world. Besides, I’m a Ray Kurzweil follower, and he’s actually made a really good case that this stuff is all going to happen within 20 or 30 years. He has charts and projections and hypotheses. HE can’t be wrong, right? Right?