Telepathic communication has been in sci-fi movies for years, but have you ever thought about what it would be like to actually use it?
Dave Evans has. The former chief futurist at Cisco, Evans stated in a 2011 interview that “we will create Internet-based telepathy,” and predicted that both hardware and software would soon be integrated into “wetware”—the human body. Sounds far-fetched, doesn’t it?
Not as far as you might think. In a fascinating (or horrifying, depending on how you feel about this sort of thing) experiment, Dr. Rajesh Rao and members of his lab at the University of Washington have created a rudimentary “telepathic” system that connects the brains of two people.