07/08/2017
"Did the age of mental cybernetics arrive while I wasn’t looking?"
https://singularityhub.com/2010/09/08/80000-and-counting-brain-implants-on-the-rise-world-wide/
Those fighting conditions like dystonia, Parkinson’s Disease, and chronic pain have a way of alleviating their symptoms – direct electric shocks to their brain. Since 1997, deep brain stimulation (DBS) implants have slowly been gaining US FDA approval for use in patients (2002 for Parkinson’s, 2003…