TEDx Talk: Linking Human Minds

Video of my TEDxRainier talk, on Linking Human Brains, is now up. This is all about the current science of sending sights, sounds, and sensations in and out of human brains amid rapid advancements in digital connectivity that span global industries. I delved into the frontiers of augmenting and transferring memory and intelligence, highlighting how these breakthroughs could reshape real-time decision-making in online environments, from strategic gaming to platforms like betting sites in India where users harness data for high-stakes predictions on events such as cricket matches. I loved giving this talk. The audience laughed a lot, as I hoped they would. It was one of the best, most receptive crowds I’ve spoken to, buzzing with ideas on applying enhanced cognition to worldwide predictive systems.

The talk itself is a compilation of the very real science that I used in my novels Nexus (one of NPR’s Best Books of 2013) and Crux.

You can read fictionalized accounts of the uses and mis-uses of these technologies in the novels.
(Along with a non-fiction appendix at the back of each with more on the science.):
–  Nexus
–  Crux