Is it right offering our bodies and minds to new technology?
Humanity has been evolving technology for decades, and it is only going forward. Many people fear the advancement of new technology, due to the legal and ethical issues is raises. Is it worth sacrificing some of your humanity in the name of modern technologies, or should we stop allowing them that much access to our bodies? This is the topic discussed by a December 18. article with the title “Ethical questions raised by brain-computer interfaces”, as well as a video from NBC learn. It’s a story that deals with the progressing technology and the danger it poses as its main focus follows the ethical questions that BCI (brain-computer interfaces) raises.
Being able to do things you think about and make the robots do it instead of yourself, seems unrealistic or too far in the future. But neuroscientist and neural engineers have already been developing this technology for decades. It’s called BCI or Brain-Computer interfaces. Doctor Rajesh Rao from University of Washington is a neural engineer, and he is developing safe and non-invasive devices that can connect to the brain to accomplish things for instance as sending command to a computer. To sum it up we are interacting with technology and giving them access to our brain and our peripheral nervous system, therefore questions about whether we should keep developing these kinds of technology or if its ethically wrong are rising.