Especially in the realm of human-computer interfaces.
Swiss neuroscientist Henry Markham, who is behind the Human Brain Project, has already started work on building a simulated rat brain.Īt the same time, getting machines to think more like humans is also progressing. The European Union, for example, recently announced it was funding a $1.3 billion project to build a human brain on a silicon substrate. But it does posit some questions that real-world researchers are just now tackling. It's not the first science-fiction tale to explore human-computer hybrids (see "What are Little Girls Made Of" in the first season of the original "Star Trek" series) or even the perils of virtual reality becoming too real (see the "Matrix" triology).
The novel by author Mark McClelland is set in the Michigan of 2070 about the time that futurists like Ray Kurzweil predict that "singularity" will be reached, the moment when machine learning will surpass human intelligence.
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