Happy January and... Happy Birthday!
Welcome to 2024 and let's celebrate the birthday of Isaac Asimov!
Happy Holidays!
Bringing to you a bit of 🧪 science, 🎥 fiction, 🧙♀️magic in all the characters with 🧠 brain powers into this 🎄NeuraChristmas Tree!
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🎉 January is also the birth month of Issac Asimov!
🤔 Did you know that Apple’s TV series Foundation is inspired by Foundation trilogy of Asimov and it features a lot of brain sensing devices and systems?
For example, book 2, ‘Foundation and Empire’ describes
Psychic Probe - a device capable of discerning truthful information in a living human brain
or
Visi-Sonor, another system on Book 2 of Foundation, is something we would call today a Deep Brain Stimulation - an entertainment device which appeared to create both sound and light by acting directly on brain cells. It also stimulated emotions directly.
TV series Foundation has introduced much more brain sensing systems: consciousness transfer from one living body to another; memory upload and more.
Our personal favorite from ethical and societal perspectives from Asimov is:
Taping from the story ‘Profession’ – a knowledge upload process, when children are educated by almost instantaneous direct computer/brain interface.
📍If in Cambridge - check the Foundation Trilogy, Profession and much more from Asimov at both MIT Libraries and Cambridge Public Library, where we are currently having our exhibition. Also check our database on
to learn more about Psychic Probe, Visi-Sonor and more!
📚 🚨And what is your favorite book from Isaac Asimov? Respond on X or Instagram, tag us and/or use #NeuraFutures tag and we will review the most interesting brain tech together!