Posthuman Blues

Human subjects play mind games

"For the first time in humans, a team headed by researchers at Washington University in St. Louis has placed an electronic grid atop patients' brains to gather motor signals that enable patients to play a computer game using only the signals from their brains."

The most immediate practical use for neural implantation is vastly improved prosthetic limbs; the transhuman applications will come later.

I suppose it's only a matter of time until some politician proclaims that we're "playing God" and has funding canceled. Wouldn't that be just fucking typical?