Silicon Valley’s Brain-Meddling: A New Frontier For Tech Gadgetry

Fiona J McEvoy
Towards Data Science
8 min readOct 17, 2019

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Introducing his students to the study of the human brain Jeff Lichtman, a Harvard Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology, once asked: “If understanding everything you need to know about the brain was a mile, how far have we walked?”. He received answers like ‘three-quarters of a mile’, ‘half a mile’, and ‘a quarter of a mile’.

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Tech ethics researcher. Founder of YouTheData.com. Tech issues for non-tech audiences. @YouTheData @FionaJMcEvoy