(Note: This post covers the paper, “BrainNet: A Multi-Person Brain-to-Brain Interface for Direct Collaboration Between Brains” by Linxing Jiang et. al. None of the quotations below are true and must be interpreted as fiction only.)

University of Washington

lab reunion –

we play Chinese whispers with

only our minds

The idea of communicating with our thoughts alone is the stuff of science fiction that, thanks to a team at the University of Washington, Seattle and Carnegie Mellon University, may soon become a reality. In their work (Jiang et. al.,2019), the researchers demonstrate the feasibility of multi-person brain-to-brain communication for the first time. Their system, BrainNet, is an exciting first step towards the future where the Internet might have human brains directly linked to it.