Neurotech
“Stories about aging have traditionally focused on the need for graceful accommodation. The recommended solution to diminishing vigor and impending death was resignation coupled with an effort to achieve closure in practical affairs and personal relationships. Given that nothing could be done to prevent or retard aging, this focus made sense. Rather than fretting about the inevitable, one could aim for peace of mind. Today we face a different situation. While we still lack effective and acceptable means for slowing the aging process, we can identify research directions that might lead to the development of such means in the foreseeable future. “Deathist” stories and ideologies, which counsel passive acceptance, are no longer harmless sources of consolation. They are fatal barriers to urgently needed action.” Nick Bostrom
Neurotech
- Nectome - Our mission is to preserve your brain well enough to keep all its memories intact.
- Brain Preservation Foundation - A nonprofit research organization with the mission to promote scientific research and services development of whole brain preservation for long-term static storage.
- Kernel - At Kernel, our primary aim is to develop technologies to understand and treat neurological diseases in new and exciting ways.
- Neuralink - Neuralink is developing ultra-high bandwidth brain-machine interfaces to connect humans and computers.
- Carboncopies - Promoting R&D for Whole Brain Emulations.
- BRAIN Initiative - Produce a new dynamic picture of the brain that, for the first time, shows how individual cells and complex neural circuits interact.
- Human Connectome Project - Aims to provide an unparalleled compilation of neural data and an interface to graphically navigate this data.
- NeoSensory - Condenses decades of neuroscience research into a sleek wristband to deliver hearing solutions that are brand new, simple, and backed by science.
- OpenWater - Working on next generation Brain Computer Interfaces.
- Blackrock Neurotech - Blackrock Microsystems mission is to provide innovative tools and neurotech expertise to translate technology into novel, implantable clinical solutions that improve human lives.
- BCI Society - The purpose of the BCI Society is “to foster research leading to technologies that enable people to interact with the world through brain signals.”
- NeurotechX - A non-profit organization whose mission is to facilitate the advancement of neurotechnology by providing key resources and learning opportunities, and by being leaders in local and worldwide technological initiatives.
- OpenBCI - Creates open-source tools for biosensing and neuroscience.
- Comparison of Artificial Brain Projects - Dated overview of WBE projects.