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Title: The Brain Electric
Subtitle: The Dramatic High-Tech Race to Merge Minds and Machines
Author: Malcolm Gay, Patrick Girard Lawlor
Narrator: Patrick Lawlor
Format: Unabridged
Length: 8 hrs and 35 mins
Language: English
Release date: 11-13-15
Publisher: Audible Studios
Genres: Science & Technology, Biology
Publisher's Summary:
Imagine controlling a machine with your mind. Imagine a communication line direct from your mind to someone else's. Imagine controlling a prosthetic limb with a thought or "seeing" through a camera located miles away. Once the stuff of science fiction, such remarkable feats are now within the grasp of neuroscience.
Malcolm Gay tells the fascinating stories of the researchers delving into the intricate workings of the brain to map the neural signals that make up our thoughts, of the group of brave, vulnerable patient-volunteers participating in these groundbreaking experiments, and of the developing technologies that will not only improve lives but potentially revolutionise human capabilities.
The Brain Electric asks us to rethink our relationship with technology, our bodies, even consciousness itself - challenging our assumptions about what it means to be human.
Award-winning journalist Malcolm Gay is an arts reporter for the Boston Globe. His writing and essays have also appeared in the New York Times and the Atlantic and on time.com, among others. He was named an Alicia Patterson Fellow in 2013 and received top honours from the James Beard Foundation, the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies and the National Association of Black Journalists. The Brain Electric is his first book.
Members Reviews:
Activate your neurons - just buy it!
I enjoyed this book immensely. Malcolm Gay did a great job of communicating the nature of brain research and the state of technology regarding human thought as it is being used to control movement of prosthetic devices. But he also went further, exploring the human nature of the scientists, their competitiveness, what they think of each other's work, and their occasional efforts to outmaneuver or trash each other, etc. This, too, is a fascinating element of the story. Another notable element of the author's style is the concise descriptions of the characters, which give the reader a unique mental image for each one. Excellent work!
Good overview of brain-machine interfaces
The Brain Electric is a useful overview for general readers of the state of the art for brain-machine interfaces in the first decade of the 21st century. Malcolm Gay has done his research; there is a well-written notes section that discusses important papers to read for those who would like to delve further into this field. I enjoyed learning about the human side of this area of neuroscience research especially a bit about the patients that have been the pioneers of this research.
Not a perfect book but one with a wonderful story and sense ...
Not a perfect book but one with a wonderful story and sense of two things:
1. How research takes us where we could not even imagine we could or would go.
2. How the bravest people are frequently those with nothing to give except themselves in love.
It is fun to see the human side of science
Mr.Gay did a fabulous job of making very complex scientific jargon understandable by the lay person. I found the race for BCI superiority fascinating. As impressive as the breakthrough work being done were the feuds between the scientists! It is fun to see the human side of science, and I had no idea the field was so competitive. Excellent Job, and a good read.
This is a great book from the beginning to the end (that
This is a great book from the beginning to the end (that, in a way, is a new beginning).
