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Add CommentIn addition to controlling limbs with the mind, engineers are also working to connect cameras directly to the brain using electrodes to cure blindness. Recent results have been successful in producing general outlines and flashes of shapes. Perhaps nanotechnology is the answer in refining this technology.
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Wow! Like computers today, robotics will be the next adequate field in the business and scientific industry. It is a field that is growing rapidly. Hopefully one day, there will be no such thing as disabled people.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisThere is much more to the Brazilian tribal story. The part about it being widely reported that they were 'unknown' then a flip flop that they were know, but had never been contacted. That the photographers and anthropologists violated their own rules by flying over (basically contacting them) just to prove they existed, so that nobody would contact them. doh!
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisWhy leave that part out?