David Eagleman: Welcome to Your Future Brain | Big Think
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@summerbreeze5115
April 6, 2026 at 12:05 pm
We have come so far🙈
@porscheninesixeight
April 6, 2026 at 12:05 pm
Not sure about this its starting g to sound a bit like transhumanism.
@Hitheone1
April 6, 2026 at 12:05 pm
انا من اشد معجبينك
@_adi_dev_
April 6, 2026 at 12:05 pm
When is this coming to market?
@haileyalexx.7430
April 6, 2026 at 12:05 pm
My name is hailey and I have ah quiz today
@blkbird
April 6, 2026 at 12:05 pm
It's 2016. What happened to Mr. Eagleman's vest invention? He even showed it at TED two years back but not much else after that. Does anyone have any updates?
@userwl2850
April 6, 2026 at 12:05 pm
mm
@userwl2850
April 6, 2026 at 12:05 pm
mm
@Infernoraptor
April 6, 2026 at 12:05 pm
Mantis shrimp eyes: they see sexnocularly (6 overlapping fields of view) in both UV and IR and spirally polarized light.
@GreatMindsGreatquote
April 6, 2026 at 12:05 pm
You better hope you don't get a Viagra and a Trojan ad simultaneously!
@azur0x
April 6, 2026 at 12:05 pm
I doubt that it will be mandatory to keep it turned on.
@greeshmacct
April 6, 2026 at 12:05 pm
vibration mode=stimulus .
Will encoding be one way mapping?
@4relevants
April 6, 2026 at 12:05 pm
Great! texting people already falling into sewer.
@caleborp
April 6, 2026 at 12:05 pm
The current unquestioned assumptions seem much more likely than what you are proposing.
@JohnBastardSnow
April 6, 2026 at 12:05 pm
I didn't say that all future technology will only distract us. But for this particular technology it's true. It could be good for deaf or blind. But streaming stock market data through your skin sounds ridiculous. If anything I want to stream it to some artificial neural network or markov chains to figure it out.Future is about technology that makes decisions/actions for us or shows us what's important for us. Jamming all senses with data doesn't' seem exiting to me at all.
@ILik3PH0T0
April 6, 2026 at 12:05 pm
You just made a huge accusation that the future of technology will only distract us and that its bad. If you have an iphone or any smart phone right now, you can do so many things on that device to be productive and better yourself that you couldnt do only a decade ago, yes you can take it in the other direction but if your not productive then you probably coudnt afford it in the first place. Technology doesnt distract us, it can, but important technology betters us.
@JohnBastardSnow
April 6, 2026 at 12:05 pm
Distractions and interruptions are number one productivity decrease factors. Most of information that we receive is total unimportant garbage, but our mammalian brains still pay attention to it.
If you honestly believe that overstimulating your senses leads to focus on what's important and enhances your productivity then you probably never even were productive.
Many CEOs turn off their phones during most of their work-time and read emails once per day for a reason.
@ILik3PH0T0
April 6, 2026 at 12:05 pm
If you honestly believe that then you have no use to humanity, we live off information, we feed off it.
@JohnBastardSnow
April 6, 2026 at 12:05 pm
People are already overstimulated with information. We don't really need to feed more information to the brain. Do we really need more? Now there's more than enough technology to keep us distracted all the time.
@zacwalton_1
April 6, 2026 at 12:05 pm
people make fun of people who do this this all the time but I honestly do not see the problem with it.
@BlueToad2222
April 6, 2026 at 12:05 pm
the first ten seconds of hand movements are great
and then u can see later in the vid, he can't help his hand movements
so funny
@BlackIceDds
April 6, 2026 at 12:05 pm
Cyborgs*
@01rai01
April 6, 2026 at 12:05 pm
not familiar with the term watching?