Brain

I circled back to work I’d done on Neal Stephenson’s “big stuff challenge.” One thing I listed, but didn’t explore, was brain research. Since Stephenson put an emphasis on engineering projects with high visibility, this one seemed important to point to, but easy to dismiss. Unless our research into the brain leads to either the bulbous heads of bad SF or antenna-festooned cyborgs, the changes are not likely to catch our attention as we walk down the street. On the other hand, the basic criteria qualify technologies emerging from brain research