Search Me Not

My fellow columnist wants us to Google our brains. But will I lose my identity in the process?

In his April column , Jack Woodall suggested that we bring the "don't be evil" technology of Google to the rapidly advancing field of brain-computer interfacing. It'd be dandy, he argued, to order the information in our brains in hierarchical fashion. In short, he wants to Google the brain.


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