Contributors: Frank J. Boehm (NanoApps Medical Inc. Founder), Nuno R. B. Martins, Amara Angelica, Yuriy Svidinenko, Ioan Opris, Mikhail A. Lebedev, Melanie Swan, Steven A. Garan, Jeffrey V. Rosenfeld, Tad Hogg, Robert A. Freitas Jr. et al

Excerpt from “Human Brain/Cloud Interface”:

Introduction

“We’ll have nanobots that… connect our neocortex to a synthetic neocortex in the cloud… Our thinking will be a…. biological and non-biological hybrid.”

— Ray Kurzweil, TED 2014

There is an incessant drive in medicine toward the development of smaller, more capable, efficacious, and cost-effective devices and systems. The primary driver of this quest relates to the cellular and sub-cellular genesis of human disease, at which scale, nanodevices can directly interact and potentially positively influence disease outcomes or prevent them altogether, particularly in regard to brain disorders (Kandel et al., 2000, Kandel, 2001; Zigmond et al., 2014; Chaudhury et al., 2015; Fornito et al., 2015; Falk et al., 2016). The pursuit of ever smaller tools to treat patients is approaching a pivotal juncture in medical history as advanced nanomedicine — specifically, medical nanorobotics — is expected to serve as a dynamic tool toward addressing most human brain disorders. The goal is to finally empower medical professionals to treat diseases at individual cellular and sub-cellular resolution (Freitas, 1998, 1999b, 2003, 2005a,c, 2007, 2016; Morris, 2001; Astier et al., 2005; Patel et al., 2006; Park et al., 2007; Popov et al., 2007; Mallouk and Sen, 2009; Martel et al., 2009; Kostarelos, 2010; Mavroides and Ferreira, 2011; Boehm, 2013).

The application of nanorobots to the human brain is denoted here as “neuralnanorobotics.” This technology may allow for the monitoring, recording, and even manipulation of many types of brain-related information at cellular and organellar levels (Martins et al., 2012, 2015, 2016). Medical neuralnanorobots are expected to have the capacity for real-time, non-destructive monitoring of single-neuron and single-synapse neuroelectric activity, local neuropeptide traffic, and other relevant functional data, while also allowing the acquisition of fundamental structural information from neuron surfaces, to enhance the connectome map of a living human brain (Sporns et al., 2005; Lu et al., 2009; Anderson et al., 2011; Kleinfeld et al., 2011; Seung, 2011; Martins et al., 2012, 2015, 2016). Non-destructive neuralnanorobotically mediated whole-brain monitoring coupled with single-cell repair capabilities (Freitas, 2007) is anticipated to provide a powerful medical capability to effectively treat most, or all of the ∼400 known brain disorders, including, most notably: Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s (Freitas, 2016), addiction, dementia, epilepsy, and spinal cord disorders (NINDS, 2017).

Neuralnanorobots are also expected to empower many non-medical paradigm-shifting applications, including significant human cognitive enhancement, by providing a platform for direct access to supercomputing storage and processing capabilities and interfacing with artificial intelligence systems. Since information-based technologies are consistently improving their price-performance ratios and functional design at an exponential rate, it is likely that once they enter clinical practice or non-medical applications, neuralnanorobotic technologies may work in parallel with powerful artificial intelligence systems, supercomputing, and advanced molecular manufacturing.

Furthermore, autonomous nanomedical devices are expected to be biocompatible, primarily due to their structural materials, which would enable extended residency within the human body (Freitas, 1999a, 2002, 2003). Medical neuralnanorobots might also be fabricated in sufficient therapeutic quantities to treat individual patients, using diamondoid materials, as these materials may provide the greatest strength, resilience, and reliability in vivo (Freitas, 2010). An ongoing international “Nanofactory Collaboration” headed by Robert Freitas and Ralph Merkle has the primary objective of constructing the world’s first nanofactory, which will permit the mass manufacture of advanced autonomous diamondoid neuralnanorobots for both medical and non-medical applications (Freitas and Merkle, 2004, 2006; Freitas, 2009, 2010).

It is conceivable that within the next 20–30 years, neuralnanorobotics may be developed to enable a safe, secure, instantaneous, real-time interface between the human brain and biological and non-biological computing systems, empowering brain-to-brain interfaces (BTBI), brain-computer interfaces (BCI), and, in particular, sophisticated brain/cloud interfaces (B/CI). Such human B/CI systems may dramatically alter human/machine communications, carrying the promise of significant human cognitive enhancement (Kurzweil, 2014; Swan, 2016).

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Worldwide Press for “Human Brain/Cloud Interface”

Heads in the cloud: Scientists predict internet of thoughts ‘within decades’

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A future ‘human brain/cloud interface’ will give people instant access to vast knowledge via thought alone

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Reddit

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Unexplained Mysteries.com

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New ‘human brain/cloud interface’ could help you gain knowledge via thought

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Heads in the cloud: Scientists predict internet of thoughts ‘within decades’

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Prediction of an internet with thoughts by scientists within decades

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Internet Of Thoughts: You Might Gain Knowledge By Simply Thinking About Topics In The Future

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Human brains may directly connect to cloud networks in future

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https://www.skywatchtv.com/2019/04/21/resistance-is-futile-you-will-be-assimilated-future-human-brain-cloud-interface-under-design-that-will-give-people-instant-access-to-vast-knowledge-via-thought-alone/

‘Human brains may directly connect to cloud networks in future’

https://www.business-standard.com/article/pti-stories/human-brains-may-directly-connect-to-cloud-networks-in-future-119041400248_1.html

Humans May Have Search Engine Tech in Our Brains ‘Within Decades’

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Walking Dead creator will explore dystopian future where social media is linked to your BRAIN using tech that ‘Elon Musk and Facebook are already trying to develop’

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6916305/Series-Walking-Dead-creator-explore-future-social-media-linked-BRAIN.html

Our brain in the data cloud? We’re getting closer

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With my head in the cloud. Scientists predict the connection of the brain with cloud computing until the end of the century

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Human Brains May Directly Connect To Cloud Networks In Future

https://www.expresscomputer.in/cloud/human-brains-may-directly-connect-to-cloud-networks-in-future/35050/

Scientist Predict the Human Brain Could be Connected to the Internet in ‘Next Few Decades’

https://bendedreality.com/scientist-predict-the-human-brain-could-be-connected-to-the-internet-in-next-few-decades/

In a couple of decades, the brain will be connected to the Internet.

https://habr.com/ru/company/cloud4y/blog/448728/

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