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Published: 2017-08-29
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgFzmE2fGXA
for it's good to be here my name is Steve Hoffman but in Silicon Valley they call me captain ha that is my nickname I am the captain of founder space and founder space is an incubator and accelerator it went black there we go yeah I need to be there an accelerator odd that works all over the world so I spend seventy traveling the globe looking at
new technology we have over fifty partners in twenty two countries and founder space has been rated by Forbes magazine as the number one accelerator for overseas startups in Silicon Valley we've had many famous startups in or co working space so much central like Instagram angel list foursquare and today I'm gonna talk about some of the technologies that most fascinate me so this is technologies are the
future of the brain are human brain and where it is headed with technology so if we examine our brain we will we will realize that for over a hundred thousand years our brain has remained the same but the world around us has changed radically so think about it we have the same brain as a prehistoric cave person I think Neanderthals if same brain but the world
his totally changed that is the power of her brain it's very elastic it can reprogram itself but now we're going to begin to change our brains and we are doing this with new technology now some of the basic technology out there E. G. allows you to actually measure your brainwaves in these devices can tell if your concentration levels they can be used to actually move a
cursor on the screen there are applications for these devices in entertainment they're working on them for controls for games in medical these devices are being used for conditions like our P. PTSD post traumatic stress the sun trust the Florida and eighty HP and other conditions and they are used for but they're being used for education they are measuring via have applications now for children to study
any measure their concentration levels and can actually change the applications as the children learn but where we're headed and let me tell you one minute is are these devices are now capable of actually recording dreams but not in a very granular way in a very primitive way they can actually capture and identify what a person is dreaming so they have done study where they put these
devices up to a person's head they've had them dream they woke them up and then they ask them to recall memories in their dreams and they read the patterns of the brain and then they put the person goes back to sleep if the dream of the same things they can recognize those patterns that is just the beginning of where we are headed right now scientists in
laboratories around the world are developing brain chips no these are chips that can be certain inserted into the brain in their wireless and let me show you they have actually had a monkey that broke its back so its spinal cord with sever the monkey was paralyzed from the waist down but they inserted a chip in the monkey's brain and then they inserted another chip in its
lower spine in they allow the brain to communicate with the lower spine as soon as they did their the monkey could walk again that is amazing totally amazing so they could actually transmit the thoughts of the monkey wirelessly to parts of the body but it gets even more amazing than that so they now have in the laboratory monkeys with chips in their brain and then they
have an electric wheelchair in just by thinking just with them thought of the monkey they can drive the wheelchair around think about that if a monkey can do that what could you do if you had that chip in your brain they have also done experiments with monkeys with a chip in their brain in a robotic arm in the monkey just by thinking can reach out and
grab something like food and feed itself that is amazing if you think about it so the monkey monkey spots are actually able to control things outside their body so when we start to think about the future about where technology is headed this is where we're going we will have brain chips in humans in the brave people who get those brain chips first are people who suffer
from severe medical conditions so if you have a severe medical condition like you're paralyzed from the neck down were you suffer a brain disorder like al's timers disease or Parkinson's disease in that brain ship can restore your quality of life would you hesitate to get the check no of course not you would say put the chip in my brain so that is starting right now these
experiments and even more interesting scientists have done experiments with wax and they have chips in the rat's brain and what they did was they thought a wrapped how did you certain things and when the rat did all these complex things it could get who now it took the rap for weeks to learn that weeks but then they hooked the rat's brain but chip to the internet
and they had another route in another city and instantly they connected us to wrap brains and you know what happened the other one knew how to get the food right away it didn't have to learn anything the knowledge which transferred form one brain of a living animal to another brain yeah it's amazing that opens up a world of possibilities because if they can do that in
rats today imagine ten years from now what they can do in humans and we will go there so nine to mind communication this is something of science fiction that we all read about but this is actually possible today as I just showed you so there will come a point where if we have a chip in our brain in the end you out there have a chip
in your brain we can communicate we could communicate without talking we could communicate when you're halfway around the world and we can exchange knowledge so if you look at a world where we have these chips that are connected to the internet all of a sudden every piece of information on the internet becomes acceptable to our minds now when we look back at today and we have
to go to buy two or Google and type in that will seem so primitive nobody will do that you would just think what knowledge do I need it will appear there for you to you but it gets even weirder stranger because we will not only be able to transfer knowledge but we will be able to transfer memories now so you can have an experience like sky
diving and all of a sudden you could transfer that experience to a friend in all the things they have experienced what you have experienced it gets even weirder because we will be living our lives as our lives we know our lives in our memories but you all the thing have access to anybody for white who wants to make it available to you people will put open
source there live so others can download pieces of their lives in experience those things that will be really strange we won't know the difference between our own memory and the memory we acquired from someone else think about that it gets even stranger so you all of us are here learning that feeds right getting EMB ace an MBA well this will be obsolete because soup will literally
be in the cloud and you would just download from all the best minds in the world whatever you need to know when you need to know what our brains will be we will no longer have universities as we have them today these that will change information will be on demand information will be commoditized knowledge will be commoditized all of us will be smarter I have infinite
amounts of storage in infinite access to information it will be unheard up we will no longer be this isolated human being we will be connected to everything so you could imagine not only will we be able to get knowledge but we can actually have school experiences in our head so right now we have these clunky VR units that we have to put on but in the
future you can just download a whole environment in actually live in it in all of you might think this is not real but you know every night when you dream those dreams are real no matter how fantastic your dreams are via real you feel like you're really there our brains have that capability already built in all it takes is the technology to stimulate M. M. and
transfer the white images in our brain Storebrand creates them and then we will live like the difference between us dreaming and reality will be blurred we will be spending a lot of time outside our bodies so think about this you as a human being right now are trapped in this body but once you are connected to the internet you are no longer trapped in your body
you could actually be anywhere at any time to any other person or any other device is it's getting sensory information so there could be a robot on Mars in you could literally tap into the robot Ammar's it would be like you're on March he could totally recreate the experience including the sensations the physical sensations like everything of you being on Mars you could live through other
people your favorite pop star you favor scientists you could be an eagle on my forehead right now walking around doing what he's doing if you on musk allowed you to do that it gets so strange because our census now we have our five senses of our body but suddenly if we are connected to a world of intelligent machines an intelligent sensors all over we will no
longer have five senses we will have access to hundreds of sensory input infrared right all these you V. all these different types of senses that we never even experienced before it will radically change how we perceive existence so if you start to go down this path you see we won't even be ex are like today will be totally alien to us we will be living in
a whole nother reality that is blending information sensory information data information memories all of this from all around the world in this vast internet in that will and can happen so let's go even further I if you're anything other lives so all of us experience things in our life but now we will be able to have many lives you could you could have many live because
you can access other people in other places in lived through that if you want to think about death it can be almost like heaven why do I say this because if you study every major religion in the world every religion Buddhism Christianity you know Hinduism what does religions promise south is that we will escape our bodies in the future we will go to some have been
or nirvana or a state of non being or state of inclusiveness with everybody no longer will we and our consciousness be confined to our bodies as an individual in fact if you look at us right now as a human being if I feel pain if I'm in pain nobody else can feel the pain I feel if you're in pain I can't feel your pain I could
feel sorry for you I can empathize with you but I cannot feel your pain but in this world we will actually be able to feel the emotions of other people you could actually not just transfer data insect three information but emotions I can actually I would know your pain you would know our pain in human beings would never be alone so we will come to a
point where we as god's what god's will be creating our own reality we will be redefining what the human experience is for the first time in history this can happen it will happen but what we want to think about is this technology is really powerful the internet being connected is really powerful but we've already seen in a very primitive way just with our cell phones these
primitive devices how can totally change your life like all of our lives are changed by we chat all of our lives are changed by the internet will we are embarking on a path now where we will become the internet the internet will be become off they will be inseparable we'll have our storage and everything else all over the place and when we do that we have
to understand that this is a big responsibility it's something we as a society we at the human race must think about very very carefully because imagine people can hack your cell phone now people can hack your computer it it can be bad they can steal your banking information take all your money they can steal your identity but they can't really hurt you in the future though
if somebody hacks into your head because it's connected to the internet they can steal you think it actually still you know they can implant memories in your head that you don't have the could erase memories they could control you in what in ways that you wouldn't even know you're being controlled is this scary so I painted on the hand of heaven but there is also a
hell right this is heaven and hell we are on the cusp of this technology that is so powerful it has the potential to so radically transform our lives in our existence in we have to be very careful about how we do this we don't want people controlling up so think about this think very carefully everybody in this room are very smart people y'all highly educated we
are going to be making these decisions that lay the groundwork for this technology in our lifetime in those decisions will affect the rest of humanity more than any decisions we've made in the past so I want to thank you palm I am the author also of this book making elephant Y. published by John Sheehan and I'd love try not a trouble here all the time looking
