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The Pentagon Wants to Put This in Your Brain

THE FUTURE

The U.S. military wants to build a brain modem that allows you to control objects by willpower. How realistic is it?

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The U.S. military is beginning work on a new “implantable neural interface” that it hopes will allow wearers to transmit data back and forth from their brains to external digital devices.

That’s right—a brain modem.

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