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The Memory Hacker
Ted Berger has spent the past decade engineering a brain implant that can re-create thoughts. The chip could remedy everything from Alzheimer’s to absent-mindedness—and reduce memory loss to nothing more than a computer glitch
By Stephen Handelman | April 2007
What the chip is saying is anyone’s guess—the content of the conversation is beside the point, Berger continues. It’s straight mechanic-talk from the man who has created a prototype of the world’s first memory implant, basically a hardware version of the brain cells in your hippocampus that are crucial to the formation of memory. The chip is meant to replace damaged neurons in the same way other prosthetic devices stand in for missing limbs or improve hearing. “If we can mimic even 10 percent of the brain’s efficiency and power, it would be humongous,” Srinivasan tells me later.
Ted Berger has spent the past decade engineering a brain implant that can re-create thoughts. The chip could remedy everything from Alzheimer’s to absent-mindedness—and reduce memory loss to nothing more than a computer glitch
By Stephen Handelman | April 2007
What the chip is saying is anyone’s guess—the content of the conversation is beside the point, Berger continues. It’s straight mechanic-talk from the man who has created a prototype of the world’s first memory implant, basically a hardware version of the brain cells in your hippocampus that are crucial to the formation of memory. The chip is meant to replace damaged neurons in the same way other prosthetic devices stand in for missing limbs or improve hearing. “If we can mimic even 10 percent of the brain’s efficiency and power, it would be humongous,” Srinivasan tells me later.
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