We Can Remember It For You Wholesale…

The interface between the human brain and machines, and the use of MRIs and other scanners to read people’s minds, is an area of technology that seems to be developing amazingly rapidly. From typing merely by thinking to ‘neurochips’ that fuse silicon and brain cells, and rat brain cells in a petri dish controlling the flight of a plane in Microsoft Flight Simulator, what was once firmly science fiction seems to rapidly becoming a reality.

Add in the ability to read your mind (in limited circumstances anyway) and it appears what was fantastical is on its way to being part of our everyday lives, with some serious ethical and moral dilemmas attached.

So how long til we will be able to scan memories?