These BCI devices are helping people overcome medical condition barriers. It is restoring dignity through independent control and communication through computer/ machine operations.
BCIs can improve the mental health of patients by restoring ability.
BCIs have the potential to expand the capabilities of humans.
A company that that implants an invasive BCI can go out of business.
Human body rejecting foreign devices, physical aging or technological obsolesce of a device.
Humans with a BCI device could have an asymmetric advantage over those who do not, especially if integrated with AI. This creates the problem of exponentially widening the disparity gap within humanity.
"Any computer can be hacked, and BCIs are no exception" (Xu, 2024)
Connect with self driving?
Connect with spaceships?
Augmented reality field of vision?
bi-directional tasks? The possibility a computer could upload information into our brain?
Military usage?
Human to human cooperative teamwork control of BCI devices for complex focus-heavy tasks
Thought exercise:
If this future is likely, how do we embrace to 'good', mitigate the 'bad' and steer toward the 'unforeseen' future with the most desirable scenario?