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Via Robin Good, this article offers the tantilizing possibility of connecting a wireless network to the brain. "This will enable direct mind-to-mind and mind-to-machine communications, claimed University of Reading cybernetics professor Kevin Warwick, who specializes in artificial intelligence and robotics. He is best known for his work in cybernetics, the study of control systems, especially systems that blend human nerves with electronic networks." Naturally scepticism abounds... but the central question isn't whether this will happen - it will, eventually - but rather, what happens when it does.

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